Senior Risk and Compliance Partner

Job description

Senior Risk and Compliance Partner - FTC 18 months
Salary circa £90,000

This is a great opportunity for someone looking to develop their Business Partnering, compliance and risk management skills and a chance to undertake a key role in supporting a broad and fast paced area of Aviva. This role will allow you to play a direct role in a key strategic programme for Aviva working collaboratively with programme team and senior leaders to embed key risk disciplines and drive a positive risk culture. You will work closely with colleagues across Risk and Compliance to provide holistic second line of defence support across the programme.

A bit about the job:

In Risk and Compliance, we work collaboratively with the Insurance, Wealth and Retirement (IWR) business ensuring we focus on the things that matter to the Group and IWR Strategy, by creating foresight and insight for the business and supporting the business to enable our growth objectives through balanced risk taking.

This Risk and Compliance Partner role will align you to a new programme which is a key strategic initiative looking to simplify and transform the IWR business. You will play an important role in supporting the programme team through agile oversight and robust second line challenge. Your role will help ensure that across the programme the key risks are identified and appropriately managed, good customer outcomes are delivered and that growth strategies are supported by balanced risk taking.

Skills and Experience:

• Solid understanding of UK Regulatory and Operational Risk Management disciplines and Governance Frameworks in Financial Services , ideally someone with a conduct and Compliance or customer background.
• An ability to influence and gain confidence from senior management and challenge the status quo, as appropriate.
• First or second line experience of oversighting or managing a comprehensive range of Financial Services Operational and Conduct risks, ideally in the Transformation / operations arena, (including but not limited to, Product Development, Operational service provision, Outsourcing Partner Oversight, IT, Data and Change risks).
• Experience of delivering Risk and Compliance oversight and challenge to areas of complex change activity, areas of high Operational risk or Financial services Customer Operations / COO backgrounds.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills with an agile approach and ability to prioritise effectively and operate at both a deep and broad level of information and complexity as required. Excellent empathy and resilience along with strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication and presentation skills.

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 £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

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Aviva is for everyone:

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

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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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