• Job Description

  Req#: R-136264

  Senior Enterprise Risk Manager

  Salary – National up to £95,000, London up to £125,000

  This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated individual to join a varied, agile and visible team in driving and influencing the appropriate understanding and management of risks and opportunities across key business decisions within Aviva’s UK General Insurance business.

  This role is available as a permanent position or a 9–12-month fixed term contract.

  A bit about the job:

  The Senior Enterprise Risk Manager will support the Head of Enterprise Risk and the Risk Business Partners, you will provide key expertise to identify, oversee and partner the business on its risks and opportunities across the entirety of the UK GI business’s risk profile.

  This will span leading targeted deep dives on emerging risk themes; reviewing, challenging and providing opinions on business plans and material business decisions; delivering key risk reports to support senior stakeholders including the ORSA; supporting the CRO in meeting regulatory requests; partnering with Finance teams to support their Risk objectives; supporting Risk Business Partners and Insurance Risk Leads conduct business oversight across pricing, reserving, claims and underwriting; and ensuring the continuing effectiveness of Aviva’s Risk Management Framework.

  Skills and experience we’re looking for:

  • Risk, underwriting, financial and/or capital professional who is driven, curious, commercially minded and ready for a challenge

  • Excellent communications skills (both verbal and written), with ability to articulate difficult and complex issues precisely and concisely to senior stakeholders and decision makers

  • Critical thinker with proven ability to review and appropriately challenge material business decisions, taking ownership of issues and building collaborative relationships across three lines of defence

  • Analytically minded with the ability to explain and comment on aspects such as investment strategy and financial risks

  • Ability to ‘join the dots’, spotting emerging trends and potential risks and opportunities to the business with clear articulation of the impact these might have on key performance metrics and appetites

  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 National up to £95,000, London based up to £125,000 (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 Matthew Drew a call on 0121 234 7664 or send an email to matthew.drew@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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