We have an excellent opportunity for a Finance Business Partner to join our General Insurance Claims team. We have introduced “smart-working”, and the person in this role can be based anywhere, as long as they are comfortable with weekly travel into Norwich, Perth or London

Life of our Customers (both internal and external) is full of unexpected twists and turns, but for every situation, our Finance Business Partners are on hand to support our business. Joining our Business Partnering Team you’ll have a vital role to play.  Every one of our people is a great communicator (talker and listener), investigator, pragmatist, influencer and decision maker.

Our professionals provide financial support and robust challenge in equal measures to the claims functions. This involves financial guidance, insight and challenge on financial performance, and reporting the Claims financial performance on a regular basis. This means engaging with core areas of our business right through the organisation from call centre to board room.

You'll be part of the Finance team supporting the Claims business, co-piloting them through the difficult decisions they must make, and taking corrective action where necessary. With your strong work ethic and even stronger customer focus, you'll put yourself in our businesses’ and customer's shoes driving our results forward.

Some key aspects of the role include:

• Analysis and reporting which addresses key issues, challenges performance and delivers an understanding of key drivers of performance

• Relationship management with Commercial Lines, especially CL Finance Team. This includes the provision of timely and accurate data and insight

• Relationship management with Property Claims business, providing support and challenge where needed

• Leading a small team (two direct reports), but works as part of the end to end Property systems, liaising with claims operations, finance teams (including Actuarial), Pricing and Underwriting teams across both personal and commercial lines

Skills & experience we're looking for:

• Excellent communication both written and oral with good questioning skills

• Experience within financial services, with commercial understanding of the insurance business an advantage

• Financial understanding of insurance P&L account and reporting measures

• Strong negotiation, influencing, prioritisation and problem solving skills

• Proactive supplier/customer and stakeholder management

• Experience of influencing senior management

• Highly numerate with relevant professional qualification (eg ACA, ACCA ,CIMA or Actuarial qualification) and strong Excel skills

What will you get for this role?

• A salary between £55,000-£75,000 depending on location, 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 responsibility, 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 Daniela Krol a call on 0121 234 7660 or send an email to daniela.krol@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