GI Efficiency Finance Business Partner

Job description

We're looking for an Efficiency Finance Business Partner for our Ireland GI Business, reporting directly to the Business Performance Management Lead.

You will support the team by leading annual budgeting and quarterly reforecasting process,  support end to end expense management with the business owners which will include but not limited to monthly tracking, reporting & challenging the business across aspects of expenses.

You will also be responsible for transforming the current expense management processes to ensure outstanding approach using automation with appropriate control measures.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Monthly review and challenge of costs to ensure there is a clear view of the rationale for deviations to expectation
• Support cost centre owners in identifying cost efficiencies and/or value add processes
• Understand all costs in each function and cost centre
• Work across different business functions & partner with the business to provide insightful analysis on current & future performance to enable achievement of targets
• Preparation of ad-hoc reports, analysis and commentary as required
• Ensure all balance sheet expense accruals are reviewed on a monthly basis and any intercompany variances are understood
• Ownership of forecasting models and preparing 3-year forecasts, in conjunction with the business owners, including group reporting for planning submissions

Expense Partnering

• Complete monthly ad-hoc analysis as required
• Support business owners on business cases as required
• Maintain relationships and lead in all expense related tasks and ensuring that service levels provided are in line with expectations
• Work with the business functions to develop their cost management champions to ensure the onus is on the business to manage their cost with Finance support

Risk & Controls

• Ensuring all audit & risk monitoring actions are closed within timescales
• Adherence to requirements of risk policies and business standards

Skills & Experience required

• Qualified Accountant with significant equivalent experience in a similar role
• Good leadership and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and influence at senior management level
• Good working knowledge of professional standards and codes
• Excellent understanding of financial drivers & metrics

What will you get for this role?

• A competitive salary depending on skills, experience and qualifications
• Generous defined contribution pension scheme
• Annual performance related bonus and pay review
• Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days
• Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for Friends and Family. (Some exclusions apply)
• Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme

Additional Information:

Oh, and by the way…

At Aviva we always ‘Care More’. It’s our thing. We’re all about our people – that’s you – so we can be pretty flexible. If you need to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we’re very open to that. We’ll even try to bend work around your further studies or hobbies where we can.

We care deeply about welcoming people no matter where they’re from, how old they are or what disability they have. We encourage applications from every age, race, ethnicity, disability, gender, gender identity, religion, culture, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, pregnancy, maternity or caring responsibility. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you.

As part of that we interview every disabled applicant* that meets the minimum criteria for the job. Just send us an email once you’ve applied, and we’ll make sure we interview you.

If you like the sound of all that, we’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you need an alternative method of applying, please give Martine Harris a call on: +44121 234 7652 or ping them an email at: martine.harris@aviva.com

*As defined in The Equality Act 2010*. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean you must provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform the role.

experience defined as essential to perform the role.