Finance Operations Manager

Please note this position is based in London and this will be the contractual location of the successful candidate, other locations cannot be considered.

Finance Operations Manager

This is a great job for someone who possesses business insight, coupled with excellent project management / facilitation skills, and knowledge of the finance function.

A bit about the job:

The Aviva Investors Finance team holds a leading role in building and running a financial framework that links Aviva Investors strategy, operations, resource allocation and performance management.  The role is primarily focussed on ensuring robust Finance operations including MI, Board, SMF and reporting responsibilities whilst driving delivery of the Finance change agenda. The Finance Operations Manager makes sure that appropriate systems, practices, and controls are in place to enable the Aviva Investors CFO and Finance Management Team to discharge their regulated accountabilities and drive market leading performance. The role holder is primarily focussed on scheduling the timely delivery of CFO reporting and actions to ExCo, governance committees, Boards and Aviva Group.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Good understanding of the risk and control environment, and the ‘Senior Managers and Certification Regime’ (SM&CR) given the regulated nature of the CFO role.

• Strong ability to influence and communicate across the business, and resilience to resistance from collaborators.

• Ability to make decisions, use independent judgment, establish priorities, and work effectively on multiple initiatives.

• Capacity to consider, process and filter large amounts of complex information quickly and identify appropriate actions.

• Excellent written communication and presentation skills, including expert skills in MS Office packages.

What you’ll get for this role:

• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in

• Eligibility for annual performance bonus

• Family friendly parental and carer’s leave

• Generous holiday entitlement plus bank holidays with the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days

• Up to 40% discount for Aviva products

• Brilliant flexible benefits including electric cars

• Aviva Matching Share Plan and Save As You Earn scheme

• 21 volunteering hours per year

Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working –spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, send an email to [email protected]

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