Senior Governance & Assurance Business Partner - Agile Transformation

Location: Eastleigh / Bristol / Glasgow / Norwich / York / Sheffield / Perth

Senior Governance & Assurance Business Partner - Agile Transformation

12-month Fixed Term Contract

Salary circa £75,000

This is a great job for someone who enjoys solving complex problems, building strong partnerships, and helping a transformation programme make confident, risk‑aware decisions.

If you are an experienced risk, governance or assurance professional with a background in agile transformation and you thrive on improving processes, influencing decisions, and shaping how a business manages risk, this could be your next move!

A bit about the job:

In this role, you’ll support a large-scale transformation programme to strengthen programme‑risk decision making, ensuring we protect our customers, our people and our reputation. You’ll work as part of our 1st line Governance & Assurance (G&A) team, contributing to the delivery of our strategy and helping streamline how we manage risk across the Health area. You’ll partner closely with transformation programmes, providing expert oversight of governance, assurance, risks and controls.

You’ll also support our risk committees, deliver high‑quality analysis, and help embed SMCR accountabilities. Ultimately, you’ll make sure the transformation programmes has clear, accurate view of their risk profiles and that decision‑making is well‑informed and well‑governed.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Experience of agile / sprint-based delivery of large-scale transformation, governance and change assurance within Financial Services.
• Knowledge of modern platform-based transformations.
• Successful record of building strong relationships and influencing senior stakeholders with credibility.
• Strong risk‑management capability, with good understanding of large organisational risk management framework and how it applies in practice.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to turn complex information into clear, meaningful insight.

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 £75,000 (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
• 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.