IT Business Partner, Aviva
£85k
+ Bonus
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Insurance, wealth and retirement business
Open for applications
Insurance, wealth and retirement business
1001+ employees
Open for applications
£85k
+ Bonus
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
With you today, for a better tomorrow. Aviva exist to be with people when it really matters, throughout their lives.
Role
Who you are
- Working knowledge of the full technology life cycle including ITIL framework
- Good knowledge of the GI business, market, and products
- Good leadership experience
- Excellent stakeholder management and relationship building, as well as the ability to collaborate and deliver through other teams
- Experience working across technology service support or technology operations
What the job involves
- As an IT Business Partner, you will be a Technology Partner and trusted advisor to the business; accountable for end-to-end technology solutions and supporting the Heads of IT Business Partnering across our GI business
- You will collaborate with internal stakeholders across the business and CIO to play an influential role in driving the business technology goals and objectives that will contribute to the success of Aviva UKGI’s ambitious strategy
- Advocating for your business area within CIO, championing their ambitions to meet strategic goals
- Partnering with CIO and 3rd party technologists to prospect for the best technology to innovate and drive business benefit aligned with technology roadmaps
- Working in partnership with the GI Business to develop a rolling 3-year IT Strategy aligned to the GI Business ambitions and collaborate to shape future year portfolios of change
- Establishing consolidated risk focus across end-to-end platforms and applications for the business
- Driving proactive service management, technology simplification and a rigorous cost focus in collaboration with CIO and the business
- Acting as senior representation for the business in IT Service & Change forums, LT sessions, steercos and other meetings
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With 18 million international customers, Aviva is the largest provider of insurance and leading life and pension funds in the UK. With a history that dates back to the founding of Hand in Hand Fire & Life Insurance Society in 1696, Aviva’s current form is thanks to a merger between Norwich Union and CGU plc in the year 2000.
Over the noughties, Aviva grew its market out to Europe and established a high-profile foothold in America thanks to the most expensive advertising campaign of the time that included celebrities Alice Cooper and Bruce Willis. Into the 2010s, the insurance broker was forced to restructure and close a large number of its non-core businesses in a bid to increase its shareholder returns and streamline its focus. In 2012 it sold its US wing to Athene Holding to further this goal.
Now stripped back after sell-offs of subsidiaries in Indonesia, Italy, and many more countries, Aviva is refocusing on pensions. In the wake of a Pensions Dashboard Programme delay in the UK, Aviva is in the running to take over the programme thanks to its pre-existing private systems. This exemplifies Aviva’s renewed focus on the fintech sector, all whilst playing national analyst during the cost of living crisis thanks to its annual Age of Ambiguity study.
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Company values
- Care
- Commitment
- Community
- Confidence
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Founders
Amanda Blanc
(CEO, not founder)Currently Group Board Non-Executive Director at BP. Previously Chairman of the Welsh Rugby Union, Senior Advisor at Trov, CEO at Zurich Insurance Company.
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