Finance Systems Expert, Aviva
£80-110k
Plus bonus opportunity (12% of annual salary) and Matching Share Plan
Insurance, wealth and retirement business
Job no longer available
Insurance, wealth and retirement business
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
£80-110k
Plus bonus opportunity (12% of annual salary) and Matching Share Plan
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
- Are you someone that is as comfortable in the depths of a detailed implementation plan as communicating high level messages to key stakeholders?
- Can you join the dots across multiple projects to identify and manage the risks and dependencies?
- Do you have the experience of working with multiple IT platform teams, Finance system users and other change professionals?
- This is a great job for someone with project management experience looking to specialise in Finance Systems implementations
- Proven experience in implementation planning and core project management disciplines essential
- Knowledge and experience of Aviva Finance systems architecture beneficial
- Risk assessment / analytical skills essential
- Proven ability to communicate messaging to senior stakeholders
- Must be comfortable with agile delivery approach and tools such as Jira
What the job involves
- The Group Finance Systems team is responsible for the global design of shared accounting, reporting and reconciliation systems that are used across UK, Ireland and Canada
- The team reports into the Head of Group Finance Systems and leads a number of projects to implement and further enhance the suite of finance systems and data platforms
- The Implementation Lead role sits in the Group Finance Systems team, but works just as closely with IT colleagues, and is needed to help deploy changes to our Global Finance systems
- The successful candidate will be allocated across the larger change projects and will be expected to own the implementation planning and associated dependency management; the role will also feed into Release Management planning and other change governance forums
Salary benchmarks
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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