Senior Manager - Finance Change

Please note this position is based in London and this will be the contractual location of the successful candidate, other locations cannot be considered.

Senior Manager - Finance Change - 14 Month Fixed Term Contract

This is a great job for someone who’s ready to take the next step in their career, within the wider Finance Team —bringing energy, ownership, and a passion for driving measurable improvements through technology-enabled solutions.

A bit about the job:

We’re looking for a proactive individual to partner with the wider Finance team in identifying, prioritising, and delivering technology-enabled improvements that drive measurable enhancements in departmental KPIs. You’ll lead the prioritisation and sequencing of continuous improvement initiatives, balancing value, risk, effort, and capacity. With a focus on scalable solutions, you’ll select technologies that have proven success within finance functions. You’ll take ownership of benefits realisation, setting target KPI movements such as close cycle time, percentage of manual journals, reconciliation ageing, and straight-through processing rates. Additionally, you’ll collaborate with Finance Risk and Assurance to ensure robust control design and risk mitigation, escalating material risks through established governance channels.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Proficient in Power Apps, Power Automate, and RPA tools, with hands-on experience designing secure and high-performing applications and workflows at scale.

• Skilled in developing comprehensive test strategies, including unit, integration, and user acceptance testing (UAT).

• Strong understanding of financial operations such as period close, reconciliations, journal entries, forecasting, and control requirements—enabling the delivery of robust solutions under time-sensitive conditions.

• Adept at translating complex Finance challenges into clear user stories and elegant technical solutions, with effective communication across Controllers, FP&A, Business Partners, and Operations teams.

What you’ll get for this role:

• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in

• Eligibility for annual performance bonus

• Family friendly parental and carer’s leave

• Generous holiday entitlement plus bank holidays with the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days

• Up to 40% discount for Aviva products

• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it

• Brilliant flexible benefits including electric cars

• Aviva Matching Share Plan and Save As You Earn scheme

• 21 volunteering hours per year

Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

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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