Head of Finance Business Partnering, Aviva
Direct Wealth & Advice
£120k
+ Performance related bonus opportunity - 25% of annual salary + Share Plan
Insurance, wealth and retirement business
Be an early applicant
Insurance, wealth and retirement business
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£120k
+ Performance related bonus opportunity - 25% of annual salary + Share Plan
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
- This is a great job for someone with previous experience looking to excel in their career with the UK’s leading Insurance Retirement and Wealth Business!
- Chartered accountant or equivalent via experience
- Prior experience in a commercial finance role in the Wealth market
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, coupled with the ability to navigate through complexity and influence internal partners on recommendations on a way forward
- Leadership experience including delivering through a matrix structure
- Financial and commercial competence, with experience of shaping strategy
What the job involves
- The Head of Finance Business partnering role is a key enabler of delivering to the financial targets committed externally and in the business plans
- Within this role you will partner with the Managing Director of the Direct Wealth business to deliver the commercial plans, advising on options to invest and grow the business profitably
- Assist in shaping the strategic agenda, provoking data led discussions with leadership on investment choices, product launches and pricing
- Drive the achievement of business plans and the longer-term strategy through commercially focused, effective and timely financial advice, establishing a cadence around performance management discussions and delivery of quality MI
- You will also work closely with the CFOs of the subsidiary advice businesses, to ensure frictionless delivery of core finance deliverables and understand the performance of these businesses
- You will manage a team of 3 experienced finance partners, with a requirement to also deliver via a matrix leverage support from the wider IWR finance team
- Key partners that will support delivery include Head of Wealth Insights (CAO), Direct Wealth Commercial Director and Head of Finance, Insurance Wealth & Retirement (IWR)
- As a senior finance leader, you will also be accountable for transforming finance and bringing a more effective finance function to the business, developing the talent and capabilities of team as the business transforms
Salary benchmarks
Our take
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
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Leadership
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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