Financial Reporting Controls Manager, Aviva
+ Annual performance related bonus & Shares
More information about location
Office located in Cherrywood, Dublin
Insurance, wealth and retirement business
Job no longer available
Insurance, wealth and retirement business
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
+ Annual performance related bonus & Shares
More information about location
Office located in Cherrywood, Dublin
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be with people when it really matters, throughout their lives.
Role
Who you are
- You must be a qualified Accountant or almost-qualified actuary to be considered for this position
- Depending on your experience your position should you be successful will not necessarily involve those areas – this will be expanded upon at interview
- Recent audit experience (external audit or internal audit)
- Qualified Accountant or Actuarial (Near Qualified)
- Experience and knowledge of life or general insurance under IFRS and Solvency II is desirable, financial services at minimum
- Risk and controls 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
- Ability to manage and drive change in a complex environment
- 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
- Work as a part of a highly motivated team to deliver the whole team objectives
What the job involves
- Our Finance team are now seeking a manager to join our FRCF within our Aviva Life & Pensions Ireland (“ALPI”) business
- FRCF provides assurance in relation to effectiveness of the control environment over Aviva’s external financial reporting
- The role reports to the Head of Finance Operations, Controls and MI and will also be closely aligned with the wider FRCF within Aviva
- This position is not simply an internal audit position: if you find issues, part of your role will be to be point them out immediately and help fix them - not simply filing those issues in an end of period report
- You will also need the capability to demand things from people, and to identify problems in process rather than at the end of the process
- You will ultimately be working to make sure various controls are robust and evidencing that fact
- This position is also situated within first line risk
- While there is the BAU aspect to this position, Aviva also have some new and cutting-edge transformation projects across the business in motion where you will have direct Controls input
- There is also an opportunity to be involved in-depth within actuarial controls and IT general or application controls
- Supporting the delivery of FRCF activity for the ALPI business, performing this assurance activity in respect of local and Group reporting processes, and ensuring that the methodology is appropriately applied for this market
- Communicating with key stakeholders and relevant process and control owners, working closely with them to ensure maintenance of a strong and effective control environment
- Building relationships across the business to give you visibility and understanding of the end-to-end reporting process
- Supporting a program of change to ensure that our FRCF activity is closely aligned to wider business developments, such as IFRS17 adoption
- Identifying other opportunities such as process automation or consistency of data usage across the business to further enhance the control environment
- You will have significant opportunity for exposure to senior stakeholders including the ALPI CFO both in the local business and in the Aviva Group centre
- The role and the wider Aviva Ireland Life business are based in our Cherrywood office in Dublin
- Delivery of FRCF assurance activity, and required to work as part of the ALPI Finance & Actuarial team supporting these requirements
- Supporting agreement with local, group & project stakeholders the assurance activity required to be performed throughout the year, including timing and prioritisation of this activity
- Drafting key FRCF governance activities, including provision of papers for local and Group forums and input into Board and Audit Committee reporting
- Working closely with subject matter experts (“SMEs”) and specialists across the wider Risk & Controls team on delivery of certain aspects of FRCF, for example IT and Actuarial SME’s
- Proactively managing your relationship with key stakeholders, including market FRCF leads and process owners, internal audit and external audit stakeholders
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Amanda Blanc
(Group CEO)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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