Here at Aviva, we are looking for a Risk & Controls manager to join our financial reporting control team. The role is a 12 months fixed-term contract, the team is predominately based in Norwich or York or London offices with benefits of our smart working policy, which means a blend of office and home working.

The purpose of the Financial Reporting Control Framework (FRCF) team is to provide assurance to the Group CFO and Group Audit Committee in relation to effectiveness of the control environment over Aviva’s external financial reporting, key aspects of this include the ownership and maintenance of the Group’s FRCF methodology and provision of assurance activity over the implementation of this methodology.

The purpose of this role is to support delivery of this activity for Aviva’s UK General Insurance (GI) business and perform the assurance activity required to support both the local and Group reporting processes.

Teamwork is a key attribute of this role. The role will be delivery as an individual contributor and working as part of the wider FRCF team and in collaboration with a wider population of stakeholders.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Be accountable for the performing FRCF activity over UK GI IFRS, Solvency II and APM reporting and for ensuring that your work complies with Aviva’s FRCF methodology and to support process and control owners to deliver in line with the requirements.

• Required to apply your professional judgement to how elements of the methodology should be applied and responsible for agreeing any judgements with your manager.

• Experience in identifying UK GI FRCF control issues, in line with the FRCF methodology. This is an area that will require application of professional judgement for example around materiality and appropriate mitigation controls and actions.

• Work as a key member of the UKGI FRCF team and the wider Group FRCF community and supported by individuals from wider team.

• Experience in performing FRCF assurance activity for the UK GI Market which will support annual, half yearly and quarterly reporting, including IFRS, Solvency II and APM reporting

• Engage in preparing UK GI Market level scoping & risk assessments.

• Coordinate with local external auditors in relation to delivery of FRCF assurance activity and any areas of reliance for the external audit.

• Support in the delivery of the quarterly and year end certification process to support UK GI certification over the effectiveness of the internal controls over financial reporting. 

• Responsible for performing the UK GI continuous risk assessments over the financial reporting control environment, including the local quarterly process owner negative assurance certification process.

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

• You will work closely and co-ordinate with SME’s and specialists across the wider Risk & Controls team on delivery of certain aspects of FRCF assurance activity, for example IT controls, EUCs and actuarial SME’s.

• Taking a role in identifying and sharing best practice on FRCF across the UK teams.

• Provide delivery support to wider FRCF team to ensure timely delivery of FRCF assurance activity across key reporting cycles.

Skills & Experience required

• Qualified accountant or actuary equivalent experience desirable

• Recent audit experience (external audit or internal audit)

• Experience and knowledge of general insurance

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

• 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

• Ability to prioritise workload effectively to meet deadlines whilst maintaining high quality of outputs

What will you get for this role?

• Salary circa £70000 depending on skills, experience, qualifications and location

• 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 Manisha Dinesh a call on 07393803498 or send an email to Manisha.dinesh@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.