Senior Manager – Cost Accountant, Aviva
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Insurance, wealth and retirement business
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Insurance, wealth and retirement business
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
With you today, for a better tomorrow. Aviva exist to be with people when it really matters, throughout their lives.
Role
Who you are
- Professional accounting qualification is essential
- Experience working in a similar role in the life insurance industry is desirable
- Advanced analytical and computer skills, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, including the proven ability to articulate and present complex processes and concepts to Executive level stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to lead projects and work independently
- Experience in meeting deadlines, coordinating activities, and escalating risks and issues
What the job involves
- The Senior Manager – Cost Accountant is a key member of the Financial Performance team at Aviva Life and Pensions Ireland
- The successful candidate will report to the Head of Performance and will work closely with the wider business
- You will play an important role in managing and improving cost accounting processes, ensuring accurate financial reporting, and providing insightful analysis to support strategic decision-making
- Support the Head of Performance in the production and presentation of cost plans
- Generate regular reports and offer insights on cost variances, trends, and key performance indicators to facilitate strategic decision-making
- Work closely with finance teams and the wider business to develop precise financial forecasts, business plans and budgets. Monitor and control expenses, analyse trends and recommend actions
- Perform expense checking and carry out valuations on larger projects, ensuring timely and accurate cost investigations take place
- Lead reviews of Service Level Agreements to continuously seek ways to improve cost efficiency and ensure value of service. Conduct thorough analysis of cost structures and identify opportunities for cost optimisation
- Collaborate with the wider ALPI business areas to enhance processes and overall efficiency
- Promote a robust risk and control environment with emphasis on strong documentation and risk management
Our take
With 18 million international customers, Aviva is the largest provider of insurance and leading life and pension funds in the UK. With a history that dates back to the founding of Hand in Hand Fire & Life Insurance Society in 1696, Aviva’s current form is thanks to a merger between Norwich Union and CGU plc in the year 2000.
Over the noughties, Aviva grew its market out to Europe and established a high-profile foothold in America thanks to the most expensive advertising campaign of the time that included celebrities Alice Cooper and Bruce Willis. Into the 2010s, the insurance broker was forced to restructure and close a large number of its non-core businesses in a bid to increase its shareholder returns and streamline its focus. In 2012 it sold its US wing to Athene Holding to further this goal.
Now stripped back after sell-offs of subsidiaries in Indonesia, Italy, and many more countries, Aviva is refocusing on pensions. In the wake of a Pensions Dashboard Programme delay in the UK, Aviva is in the running to take over the programme thanks to its pre-existing private systems. This exemplifies Aviva’s renewed focus on the fintech sector, all whilst playing national analyst during the cost of living crisis thanks to its annual Age of Ambiguity study.
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Company values
- Care
- Commitment
- Community
- Confidence
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
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Leadership
Amanda Blanc
(CEO, not founder)Currently Group Board Non-Executive Director at BP. Previously Chairman of the Welsh Rugby Union, Senior Advisor at Trov, CEO at Zurich Insurance Company.
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