Finance & Reporting Analyst

This role sits within IT Finance and plays a key role in providing financial leadership, insight and challenge across a significant area of the business. You'll be responsible for ensuring robust financial control, driving the planning and forecasting agenda, and delivering meaningful analysis that supports strategic decision making. Working closely with senior stakeholders across IT, Procurement and Finance, you'll influence investment decisions, optimise cost management and provide clear recommendations on financial performance. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced finance professional to shape outcomes, drive continuous improvement and make a visible impact within a complex and evolving environment.

This role is based in our Dublin Cherrywood office moving to OPP Hatch Street in summer 2027.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead the IT month-end close process, ensuring accurate, timely and insightful financial reporting while maintaining strong financial controls and governance.
• Provide detailed analysis of financial performance, identifying key drivers, risks, opportunities and trends, and presenting clear recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning activities across IT cost areas, providing robust challenge and commercial insight to support decision making.
• Partner with senior stakeholders across IT, Procurement and Finance to influence investment decisions, improve financial outcomes and ensure effective cost management.
• Drive continuous improvement across financial processes, reporting and planning activities, leveraging automation and data analytics to increase efficiency and enhance insight.

Skills & Experience

• Significant experience in financial planning and analysis, finance business partnering or management accounting within a complex commercial environment.
• Strong understanding of financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, financial controls and performance management.
• Advanced analytical capabilities, with the ability to interpret complex data, identify commercial insights and influence business decisions.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with experience partnering with and constructively challenging senior business leaders.
• Strong systems and technical skills, including advanced Excel and experience using Power BI, TM1, SAP, Oracle or similar financial reporting and planning tools.

What will you get for this role?

The work you do at Aviva will make a real difference to our customers. We will recognise your contributions and reward you. From competitive salaries to generous pension contributions and paid paternity leave; take a look through some of our employee benefits!

The expected pay range for this role will fall between €60,000 and €70,000 and salary offered will commensurate with candidate's level of skills and experience.

• A competitive market leading salary depending on skills, experience, and qualifications.
• Generous pension (employee contribution matching of up to 14% if you contribute 8%).
• Annual performance related bonus and pay review.
• Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays, and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days.
• Generous Health & dental insurance contributions.
• Aviva Matching Share Plan and Save As You Earn scheme and Approved Profit Share Scheme.
• TaxSaver Travel Scheme.
• Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products plus discounts for Friends and Family.
• Professional qualification support and transparent career progression plans.
• 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 paid volunteering days to help others.
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools.
• We’re deeply invested in our people,  our total reward package has so much to offer.

Aviva is for Everyone   

Our diversity and inclusion policies and initiatives are shaping an environment where everyone feels welcome regardless of age, disability, race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, culture, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, pregnancy, maternity or those with other caring responsibilities. Our approach helps to ensure that Aviva is a place which values difference and provides equal opportunities for all.  

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending at least 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.  

We prefer all applications to be submitted online, however if you require an alternative method of applying, please contact kate.ohara@aviva.com