Our Financial Reporting Controls (FRC) team has started the search for an experienced Senior Manager to join them in this key position. The team is mainly based in York but the role benefits from our smart working policy, which means a blend of office and home working.

The FRC team provides assurance in relation to effectiveness of the control environment over Aviva’s external financial reporting.

This role is responsible for the delivery of this activity for Aviva’s UK Life business, leading a team to perform this assurance activity to support both the local and Group reporting processes, and ensuring that the methodology is appropriately applied for this market.

The role will involve leading on communication with key stakeholders and relevant process and control owners, working closely with them to ensure maintenance of a strong and effective control environment.

This role has significant opportunity for exposure to senior stakeholders. This role provides a great chance to build relationships across the business, from operations and finance teams and will give you visibility and understanding of the full end to end financial reporting process.

In this role you will also shape and deliver changes to the Financial Reporting Controls activity in response to UK corporate reform measures.

What are some of the key activities in this role?  

• Leading a team of managers who will support with delivery of FRC assurance activity for the UK Life market

• Agreeing with stakeholders the assurance activity required to be performed throughout the year, including timing and prioritisation of this activity

• Delivery of key FRC governance activities, including provision of papers for local and Group FRC forums and input into Board and Audit Committee reporting.

• Attendance and presenting at the relevant governance forums, including Local and Global FRCF forums.

• Proactively managing key stakeholders, including market leads and process owners, internal audit and external audit stakeholders.

• Working closely and co-ordinating with SME’s and specialists across the wider Risk & Controls team on delivery of certain aspects of FRCF, for example IT and actuarial SME’s

What skills & experience do I need?

• Strong risk and controls knowledge and delivery experience, including SOx and internal risk and controls management

• Recent audit experience (external audit or internal audit)

• Qualified accountant or actuary or equivalent experience desirable but not ess

• Experience and knowledge of life insurance

• Knowledge and experience of financial reporting controls

• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written), with the ability to communicate complex issues in an easily understood manner

• Relationship management skills to achieve objectives through others and maintain effective stakeholder relationships across both the businesses/markets and external suppliers

• Effective influencing skills with people at all levels internally and externally with the ability to build credible working relationships

What will you get for this role?

• A salary range starting from £60,000 depending on skills, experience and qualifications

• Generous defined contribution pension scheme

• Annual performance related bonus and pay review

• Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days

• Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for Friends and Family (some exclusions apply)

• Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme

Working at Aviva

At Aviva, we’re people with a purpose. To be with you today, for a better tomorrow.

We bring this to life by ensuring managing risk is at the heart of the way we all work. We love people who do the right thing for our customers, and our colleagues. We want people who speak up, who take responsibility, and who make good decisions.

The way we do this is important too. We’re all about our people – that’s you – so we can be pretty flexible. If you want to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we’re very open to that. In fact, we don’t advertise roles as either part or full time, because we know each person has different needs, just as each business area has different needs. So, it’s up to you to discuss working hours during your interview.

We care deeply about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you.

We interview every disabled applicant* that meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us a separate email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll make sure we interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Daniela Krol a call on 0121 234 7660 or send an email to daniela.krol@aviva.com   

*As defined in The Equality Act 2010*. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean you should provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform the role.