Governance and Assurance Manager

Location: Norwich / York / Bristol / Sheffield / Perth

Governance and Assurance Manager – Salary circa £55,000

Are you someone who thrives on clarity, collaboration and creating impact? This role is perfect for someone with experience in risk or governance and assurance who’s ready to take the next step and join a growing function with an exciting agenda. You might be a trusted advisor in your current team, or someone who’s led governance and assurance initiatives and wants to take ownership for the successful governance of a key Group function. If you’re confident working with senior leaders, enjoy making complex things simple, and want to help build a strong governance culture, this could be your next move.

A bit about the job

You’ll join our Group COO team, helping to embed a strong risk and governance culture across the business. Your work will support our senior leadership team and influence how we manage risk and compliance. You’ll lead governance reporting, coordinate forums, and deliver insights that shape our strategy. This role is all about making sure we’re doing the right things, in the right way, for the right reasons. And you’ll be at the heart of it.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Experience operating in a risk and control role, ideally within 1st line.
• Deep understanding of Risk and Control frameworks within the Financial Services industry.
• Experience of embedding risk frameworks and technical controls.
• Senior level influencing, relationship management and consulting experience.
• Ability to translate risk information into clear insight for senior stakeholders.

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.

• Salary circa £55,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity -10%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
• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it
• 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

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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 at least 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, or if you have any queries in relation to the vacancy, please send an email to beatrix.rozsa@aviva.com.