Senior Finance Business Analyst

Senior Finance Business Analyst

12 Month Fixed-Term Contract

Starting Salary: c. £65,000 depending on skills and experience

Location: Bristol or York with 50% office attendance

This is a great job for someone who has a strong Business Analysis background spanning Finance, Actuarial Modelling, Data, Governance and Controls, and enjoys getting underneath how complex financial and actuarial processes actually work.

This role would suit someone who can work with specialist SMEs to understand models, their inputs, transformations, outputs, business rules and controls, as well as translating governance and control requirements into practical processes and sustainable ways of working.

You’ll thrive if you enjoy bringing structure to complex environments, challenging where evidence or accountability is unclear and helping create solutions that are well documented, controlled, traceable and sustainable.

A bit about the job:

This role sits within the Data & Modelling Control Programme, focused on strengthening the control and assurance environment across critical Finance and Actuarial processes.

You will work particularly closely across the Modelling and Governance & TOM workstreams, analysing current-state processes, models and controls, identifying gaps and helping define and implement the future state.

Within Modelling, you will work with Finance and Actuarial SMEs to understand and document model purpose, ownership, inputs, transformations, calculations, outputs, dependencies and controls. You’ll support model inventory and documentation, validation and control assessment, remediation of identified weaknesses and the evidence required to demonstrate that models and their associated controls are operating as intended.

Alongside this, you will help translate those improvements into clear accountabilities, governance, processes and sustainable BAU ownership, ensuring that changes made through DMC become embedded rather than relying on programme intervention.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Strong Business Analysis experience delivering complex Finance, Actuarial, Modelling, Data, Governance or Regulatory Change.
• Experience analysing and documenting financial or actuarial models, model inputs and outputs, calculations, transformations, business rules, dependencies and controls.
• Strong understanding of model and data-control activities, including model inventories, data dictionaries, lineage, validation, control assessment, remediation and evidence.
• Ability to work effectively with Finance and Actuarial SMEs to unpack complex models and processes and translate them into clear documentation, requirements and actions.
• Experience defining and implementing governance, accountability structures, processes and operating model changes.
• Strong stakeholder facilitation skills, including the ability to challenge constructively, resolve ambiguity around ownership and support transition into sustainable BAU arrangements.

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 c. £65,000 (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

• 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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We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Amber Britton a call on 07775546100  or send an email to amber.britton@aviva.com