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Financial IT Controls Transformation Manager Salary: National – circa £55,000 / London – circa £70,000 We are looking for a Financial and Technology controls expert to join our new team, to identify opportunities to enhance the sustainability of our control environment and use their subject matter expertise in the use of technology to drive efficient and effective control outcomes. As a subject matter expert, you’ll partner with various stakeholders across finance, using your expertise to generate ideas, challenge processes and support delivery. This position is pivotal in ensuring a robust control environment at Aviva, making it an exciting and rewarding opportunity for those ready to drive meaningful change! Aviva operates a “smart-working” policy meaning that we spend approximately half of our time working in an office, and this role is based in Norwich or London. A bit about the job: The position holder will support change activity that will focus on the full lifecycle of the change process and will include using your subject matter expertise to support in identifying opportunities to drive improvements in the control environment, with a specific focus on the use of technology to leverage the planned change activity, whilst also supporting with identification, design and implementation of automated controls in order to increase reliance on automated controls in Finance. The successful individual will also support with identification of risks associated with change delivery and design of mitigating activities, support and challenge through the various stages of change delivery, including testing and business readiness activity, as well as taking an active role on design and implementation of overarching frameworks for supporting finance colleagues to assess and address risk and controls through change delivery. This role would include working as a business partner to individuals leading and delivering finance transformation and change activity, therefore you will be responsible for building working relationships with appropriate contacts and building your understanding of the relevant impacted processes, systems, and data. You will work as part of a small team of subject matter experts supporting delivery of strong control outcomes for finance transformation and change, with a focus on use of technology alongside support on wider impact of change on controls. Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Demonstrable delivery of improved risk and control outcomes, especially in context of IT controls, technology enabled controls or financial controls.
• Experience of working with new technologies to enhance quality and sustainability of the control environment and associated risk and control activity.
• Ideally has the ability to read / understand common coding language: JavaScript, Python, R studio, SQL, XML etc. Experience of working with AI and Gen AI would also be highly beneficial.
• Good understanding of the insurance industry or financial services and knowledge of finance processes (operational and reporting) would be preferred.
• Good communication skills (verbal and written), with the ability to communicate your SME knowledge to a non-SME audience.

What you’ll get for this role: Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Starting salary circa £55,000 (National) / circa £70,000 (London) (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity - 10% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.
• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

Take a look to learn more. Put a salary into this calculator to see what your total Aviva Reward could be. 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 interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you. We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Alannah Burgess a call on 07391381173 or send an email to alannah.burgess1@aviva.com.