Finance Business Partner

This is a fantastic opportunity to join the finance team, business partnering our GCS business (Global, Corporate and Specialty) within UKGI (General Insurance) Commercial Lines. It’s an exciting time to join with a significant growth and transformation journey ahead.

If you have strong financial and analytical skills, combined with experience working in a business partnering/advisory type of role within the insurance industry, we would love to hear from you!

A bit about the job:

The main focus of the team and role is to provide financial support and robust challenge in equal measure to the GCS business. You will work closely with the business to drive performance and growth, this includes:

• Acting as the primary Finance point of contract for certain lines of business, covering all financial matters in these areas.
• Financial and business planning and forecasting, directly involved in the shaping of business strategy with our GCS teams.
• Drive performance management of the GCS business including decision support on deals, transformation and strategy and proactive analysis to identify opportunity and support plan delivery.
• Supporting the GI finance transformation programme to enable to make the finance function best in class, highly efficient and focused on value add.
• Representation of GCS Finance at key meetings (such as quarterly deep dives, planning sessions, Senior Leadership monthly meetings, valuation meetings, etc).

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Strong financial understanding of General Insurance P&L accounts and reporting measures.
• Background of commercially focused finance roles, with FP&A and business partnering experience preferred.
• Commercial foresight and understanding of the Insurance business - a strong familiarity with London Market/Corporate & specialty sector is essential.
• A relevant accounting qualification e.g., CIMA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent.
• Knowledge and familiarity of modelling and analytical tools.

What you’ll get for this role:

• Salary circa £85,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications).
• Bonus opportunity - 12% 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.

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.

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