Senior Governance & Assurance Business Partner - #1679278

Senior Governance & Assurance Business Partner

Salary Circa £70,000

This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive and self-starting individual to join our IWR (Insurance, Wealth and Retirement) COO Governance & Assurance (G&A) Business Partnering team. If you are ready to play a key role in our wider G&A Shared Services team and help us support IWR to implement their strategy, safely and at pace, we would love to hear from you!

A bit about the job:

Providing dedicated G&A support to Plan A (one of the ‘Top 8’ IWR Transformation programmes), you will provide proactive and holistic risk and control challenge, guidance, and support helping to secure good customer outcomes, protect the reputation of the business and helping it transform safely. Providing risk support and working collaboratively across the wider G&A team on activities to drive improved risk management.

You will be an individual contributor using knowledge of risk management tools, systems and processes and an understanding of how Governance services the business. You will take a lead role in supporting the project team with their risk management practices and supporting them to identify threats to their control environment. The role holder will also provide SME support on matters of risk and controls using their understanding of the wider regulatory environment. You will use your knowledge to recommend changes in processes and systems, and support more senior professionals in developing appropriate solutions for the business.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Experience of working with risk management frameworks from either a risk, governance, audit or compliance function


• Ideally, some knowledge and experience of the IWR COO business and / or supporting strategic change programmes


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  Relationship/stakeholder management skills, including being comfortable challenging others with pragmatism, energy, enthusiasm, and resilience


• Self-starter and focused with proactive planning and organisational skills and the agility to multitask and meet deadlines


• Customer centric approach

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 £70,000 (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


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  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

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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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We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Tawana Chin a call on 07789 624461 or send an email to ***********@aviva.com.