Investment Reporting Change Manager

This ambitious role is part of the Investment Reporting team within our Investment Operations. We work with a wide range of business partners, including offshore reporting teams and external suppliers and aim to be a centre of operational excellence, crafted by developing a forensic understanding of the reporting processes to minimise production time and errors, increase frequency and enhance business insight into the results. This is a 12-month Fixed Term Contract role to increase team resources for upcoming projects. The Investment Reporting team has responsibility for the accurate supply of asset data from a number of providers to facilitate the processing of asset stressing, accounting, financial reporting, credit risk reporting and control over financial investments across UKL and UKGI. Information fed into accounts and into management for decision-making purposes need to be timely and accurate to avoid potential financial losses, regulatory breaches and reputational issues in the marketplace. The main purpose of this role is to be responsible for project managing and delivering allocated change impacting the investment reporting team and its direct business partners. Duties & responsibilities include: You will be representing investment reporting for allocated change projects and providing regular updates & critical issues to the Senior Investment Reporting Change Manager You'll be working with the wider investment reporting team and its meaningful business partners to understand & document how the allocated change will impact downstream processes You'll manage, test & deliver the impacts of the allocated change through the project and into BAU You'll manage the relationships with external providers and internal business partners in respect of the allocated change You'll provide expert support and advice to the BAU teams, their customers & business partners to inspire change outcomes You'll influence business partners and external third parties to ensure that change solutions are optimal. And you'll maintain an effective control environment including evidencing compliance with our principles whilst protecting finance systems, process and controls throughout the change process The role will also be responsible for the identification of improvements which can be made to existing processes within the investment reporting team to improve efficiency and consistency of process across funds, location and topic area. This position is expected to give appropriate SME support for cross-functional projects and will require close liaison with the appropriate Reporting and Finance change teams. You will need to be comfortable with a significant degree of autonomy but recognise when management should be briefed. You may undertake other activities not directly assigned to this role profile during peak times to enable the team to deliver client requirements to the appropriate quality and timeliness. What skills & experience do you need? Are you Qualified or Part Qualified Accountant with relevant financial services experience? Do you have experience and understanding of investments and investment reporting environment? Do you possess a positive personality to address new challenges, and a proven ability to inspire change? Do you have excellent, evidenced stakeholder/relationship & communication skills? Do you have strong influencing & negotiating skills? Do you demonstrate ability to identify & implement process efficiencies and improvements? Do you deliver cross site/team people & process change? Do you possess Excellent analytical skills and a good eye for detail? Are you a self starter, highly resilient & ability to deal with conflict resolution? What will you get for this role? A competitive salary depending on skills, qualifications and experience 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 & Equal Opportunity Bring to Aviva what makes you different and we'll support you to do the best work of your life. We encourage applications from everyone who wants to help us achieve our purpose of helping our customers to Defy Uncertainty. One of Aviva's core values is we Care More, and this is brought to life through the flexible ways we like to work. This may include working from home some of the time, or flexible work schedules to accommodate parent and carer responsibilities, further studies and hobbies. Join our Finance Community for latest news and hot jobs - http://gr.8job.eu/IQvyYfQS. We prefer all applications to be submitted online, however if you require an alternative method of applying please contact Dan in the Resourcing team on or . As a disability confident employer, we guarantee to interview anyone with a disability, (As defined in the The Equality Act 2010) whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post. (By 'minimum criteria' we mean that you must provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required, as well as meeting any of the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential). Please apply through the website and then notify us that you meet the conditions for the guaranteed interview scheme.