We are currently recruiting for a Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Manager to join the Finance team until the end of the year.

The Group FP&A is responsible for leading Group-wide performance management through Planning, Forecasting and MI, driving clear, actionable insight to the Board on strategic and business performance issues, and potential solutions.

Role Responsibilities

• Translating the strategy into financial and operational plans and targets as well as performance management and reporting through regular forecast and MI processes

• Collaborating with all finance teams, in particular Reporting, Capital, Treasury, Investor Relations and other Group teams including Strategy, M&A and Transformation

• Engaging with Reward team and Remuneration Committee in setting and tracking progress against robust targets

• Working with the Group FP&A Leads to deliver and continually improve financial planning and analysis processes, delivering better insights to support decision making and support external messaging of financial results

• Producing Group consolidated Financial Plans, Quarterly Rolling Forecasts (“QRF”), Monthly MI and other ad hoc performance reports as required

• Reviewing and understand Business Unit and Functional forecast and MI submissions to understand drivers of performance and variance to plans

Skills and experience required:

• Experience working in Planning / Forecasting and Reporting roles preferred

• Good knowledge of insurance business and key performance drivers

• Robust IFRS technical knowledge with understanding of broader financial metrics preferred

• Proven track record of driving operational improvement and system enhancements

• Experienced with producing high quality analytical outputs which will be utilised by Senior Leadership in decision making

• Able to link technical issues to commercial substance and find solutions to bridge between the two

• Strong risk and control mindset

• Degree or equivalent, plus recognised accounting qualification

What will you get for this role

• Salary circa £60,000 depending on skills, experience and qualifications

• Generous defined contribution pension scheme

• Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays (pro rata) 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.