Project Management Specialist in York

Location: York

Salary: £45,000 per year

Recruiter: Aviva

Job Hours: Full-time

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Project Management Specialist

Salary: Up to £45,000

This is a great job for someone with experience working within Finance Transformation and extensive change management and controls experience.

A bit about the job:

The purpose of this role is to ensure the safe delivery of change in Finance operational areas.

This role works in partnership with Finance Change SMEs and the Testing/PMO function to ensure that best practice controls are operated throughout the change delivery cycle and that the change agenda is delivered to time, budget and expected quality standards.

Effective management of stakeholders (within F&IO and the across the wider Finance community and broader business areas) is a vital part of this role, either through regular steering committees, routine MI or risk forums.

Alongside strong change management skills, this role will require an understanding of Finance Operational processes such as Banking and Payments, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, Unit Pricing and Investment Reporting.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

Successful Finance Operations project/programme delivery in line with the defined success criteria and set goals to ambitious timelines, while maintaining strong risk management controls.

Tight budget consciousness with clearly defined and maintained cost and resource profile.

Problem solving through having the right attributes, seeking continuous improvement, optimisation, and automation in the Finance Operations function.

Create simple, practical solutions through great communication and translation of requirements and creative thinking.

Senior stakeholder reporting at regular cadences to support decision making.

Aviva operates a “smart working” policy meaning that we spend approximately half of our time working in an office, with this role based in Norwich and York.

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 Up to £45,000 (location, skills, experience, and qualifications).

Bonus opportunity of 8% 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 are 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.