The Finance Business Partner is a member of the Finance team helping the senior leadership team (SLT) and the Finance Director of the Personal Lines business area.

The Finance Business Partner plays a key role in shaping the performance agenda, and providing the business with choices around optimising growth and profitability and helping it to understand the consequences of the decisions including impacts on customer and the risk environment.

The successful candidate will support the shaping and achievement of business plans and goals through commercially focused, effective and timely financial advice and support to the Senior Finance Business partner.

You will play a key role in shaping the performance agenda, providing the team with choices about revenue generation, profit optimisation and cost management and the understanding of the consequences of decisions made. You will educate the business to ensure that they understand their key value drivers and how they are performing against them, and their financial management responsibilities.

Your responsibilities will be to:

• Use financial modelling & analysis to help drive business performance

• Produce financial & trading information for decision making

• Own the business performance culture – where financial targets are embedded, monitored and challenged throughout the business

• Provide insight and challenge to teams to drive optimisation of performance and achievement of New Business, Existing Business and Capital plans

• Lead on scenario and ‘what if’ analysis, consulting with all relevant stakeholders and using all available market intelligence.  Communicate outputs and findings to senior management

• Monitor internal and industry trends, forecasts and competitor analysis that help inform the future development of the business

• Manage the cost base of the business

• Identify ongoing risks and opportunities, ensuring business management is aware and appropriate actions are taken and delivered

• Manage financial plans and cost management initiatives within an established framework

Skills & Experience required:

• Have previous Financial management in a complex organization

• An understanding of the insurance business and marketplace is useful

• If no prior experience of insurance, then a strong appetite to learn is required

• Technical background, able to link technical issues to commercial substance and find solutions to bridge between the two

• Good knowledge of the regulatory and legislative landscape

• Strong awareness of control & governance requirements in a fast-paced regulated environment

• Degree/Professional accountancy qualification or equivalent experience

• Good commercial awareness and understanding of business profit drivers

• Good at planning, organising and making things happen

• Good at communicating complex issues in an easily understood manner

• Strong financial modelling capability

• Ability to manage both complexity and volume of demand

What will you get for this role?

• Salary between £40,000 - £55,000 depending on skills, experience and qualifications

• Generous defined contribution pension scheme

• Annual performance related bonus and pay review

• Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days

• Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for Friends and Family. (Some exclusions apply)

• Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme

Working at Aviva

At Aviva, we’re people with a purpose. To be with you today, for a better tomorrow.

We bring this to life by ensuring managing risk is at the heart of the way we all work. We love people who do the right thing for our customers, and our colleagues. We want people who speak up, who take ownership, and who make good decisions.

The way we do this is important too, we’re all about our people – that’s you – so we can be pretty flexible. If you want to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we’re very open to that. In fact, we don’t advertise roles as either part or full time, because we know each person has different needs, just as each business area has different needs. So, it’s up to you to discuss working hours during your interview.

We care deeply about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you.

We interview every disabled applicant* that meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us a separate email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll make sure we interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Guv Johal a call on 0750 008 7919 or send an email to Guv.Johal@Aviva.com.

*As defined in The Equality Act 2010*. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean you should provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform the role.