Finance Risk and Assurance 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 Risk and Assurance Manager

This is a great job for someone who has knowledge and experience of financial reporting controls, and Ideally from an audit background.

A bit about the job:

The role is required to support the execution of risk and control assurance activity for Aviva Investors Finance. This role helps to maintain responsibility for oversight of the Financial Reporting Control Framework (FRCF) within Aviva Investors Finance and Operational Risk and Control Management (ORCM) for Finance, Legal and Company Secretarial. The role's purpose is to help the team provide assurance to the CFO and Legal Executive regarding the efficiency of Aviva Investors' control environment in financial and non-financial reporting. Ensuring effective and embedded risk management is imperative at Aviva and as part of this role you will play a key part in ensuring an appropriate culture is in place to support and improve the risk and control environment. The role provides an opportunity to help upskill the Finance, Legal and Company Secretarial community in understanding what a good control environment looks like and to emphasise the role that they must play in this regard. On a day-to-day basis you will be contributing to the day to day management of the Finance, Legal and Company Secretarial Risk environment under FRCF and ORCM, ensuring a high standard of delivery in all aspects of work ranging from control design and testing to issue and risk event management and Risk assessments. You will also represent the team on adhoc team projects, and contribute to the AI payments governance process ensuring an effective payments governance process exists within AI.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Risk and controls delivery experience and ideally from an audit background

• Familiarity with the financial services industry and ideally the investment management industry.

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

• Building positive relationships with collaborators to achieve objectives through effective communication and teamwork

• Qualified accountant or suitably qualified by experience with significant experience in the application and operation of financial controls

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.

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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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