• Job Description

  Req#: R-142006

  Operational Resilience Risk Expert

  London Salary £90,000

  National Salary £75,000

  We have a fantastic opportunity for an Operational Resilience Risk Expert to join our passionate and tenacious team. This is a great job for someone with broad experience in risk with great stakeholder management skills as you will be operating as part of the Operational Resilience Governance and Assurance Team!

  A bit about the job:

  In this role, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining Operational Resilience Risk monitoring and assurance framework and procedures to ensure reporting on Aviva’s ability to remain within Impact Tolerance is in line with regulatory requirements and industry standard methodologies and support the development and implementation of risk management strategies and initiatives to improve operational resilience risk management practices across the organisation.

  You will provide expert advice and guidance on the identification, assessment, and management of operational resilience risks (people, location, technology, data and third party) to our ability to remain with Impact tolerances of our Important Business Services. Review and assess risk assurance reporting and other risk-related documentation in the context of our important business services to identify emerging risks and trends. In addition, you will develop and deliver operational resilience risk management engagement and awareness activity to ensure that colleagues are equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge to effectively handle risks.

  Integral to this role will be partner relationship management as you will collaborate with other risk management functions and key internal business partners to ensure that operational resilience risk reporting and assurance is appropriate integrated and aligned to our operational resilience requirements.

  Skills and experience we’re looking for:

  • Well-developed consulting skills, including a successful record of building personal credibility and managing relationships with key executive decision-makers with an excellent ability to influence and apply pragmatism
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to understand and influence others to see the bigger picture
  • Demonstrated record of maintaining and improving governance and assurance frameworks
  • Strong understanding of UK Operational Resilience regulation
  • Understanding of the operational resilience risks across associated risk domains that have the potential to impact our Business Services and the controls required to manage and mitigate them within appetite and Impact Tolerance

  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.

  • National salary up to £75,000, London salary up to £90,000 (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

  • 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

  Take a look to learn more. Put a salary into this calculator to see what your total Aviva Reward could be.

  Aviva is for everyone:

  We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

  Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way. So, regardless of gender, why not apply. And if you’re in a job share just apply as a pair.

  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.

  To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here

  We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you.

  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 tawana.chin@aviva.com.

• About the company

  We’re here to protect our 33 million customers from life’s unexpected twists and turns – freeing them from fear of uncertainty. We are one of only a few insurance companies in the world that can provide customers with life, general and health insurance, and asset management in one place – a composite insurer. And we have a unique competitive advantage. Whether we’re protecting them from everyday risks or helping them to save for the future, we put customers at the heart of all we do – creating a bright and sustainable future for our customers, employees and our communities.

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