Automation Community of Practice Lead

Aviva; Norwich; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate Automation Community of Practice Lead to drive transformation in Finance. This role involves shaping automation strategies, leading a dedicated team of change professionals, and collaborating with IT and Risk colleagues to deliver innovative solutions. You'll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge tools and technologies, including GenAI, while managing a global team. If you're a self-starter with a consultative mindset and a desire to challenge the status quo, this is the perfect opportunity for you to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Bonus opportunity - 12% of annual salary

Generous pension scheme - up to 14% contribution

29 days holiday plus bank holidays

40% discount on Aviva products

Free Aviva shares up to £1,200 per year

Parental and carer’s leave

Flexible benefits including cycle to work

3 paid volunteering days

Wellbeing support and tools

Qualifications

• Experience in leading transformation projects and automation strategies.
• Strong knowledge of data engineering and automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to build and maintain automated solutions.
• Define and implement automation strategy across Finance.

Skills

Data Engineering

Automation Tooling

Power Automate

Appian

Dataiku

ETL Technology

AWS Glue

Snowflake

PostgresSQL

Data Visualization

Agile Delivery

Consultative Mindset

Problem Solving

Communication Skills

Relationship Building

Education

Degree in Finance or related field

Management Consultancy Background

Tools

Qlik

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Automation Community of Practice Lead

Location: London, Norwich, York or Bristol

Salary: circa £70,000 (National) - circa £85,000 (London)

Are you someone who is passionate about transformation? Do you have a consultative mindset? Are you interested in deploying the latest tools and technology to automate and digitise processes including enabling GenAI? We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Finance Change professional to lead our Automation Community of Practice.

A bit about the job:

The Finance Automation Lead role will be responsible for defining our automation strategy. You will shape and lead a dedicated Community of Practice driving coordination across Aviva’s global Markets and Group Functions to identify transformation opportunities, support with solution design and report benefits to senior stakeholders.

The role will report to the Global Head of Aviva’s in house transformation team for Finance. You will need to be a self-starter to support Finance in defining and meeting its transformation objectives. The role will work closely with IT and Risk colleagues to deliver transformation outcomes and will be responsible for managing a dedicated team both in the UK and India.

The role will involve leading a team of change professionals and data engineers in the UK and Offshore to build and maintain automated solutions, from building ETL processes to delivering automated workflows and GenAI. Also essential will be defining best practice and ensuring any deployment delivers future-proofed Finance processes.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Technical: Knowledge of data engineering and automation tooling, e.g. Power Automate, Appian, Dataiku, WTW Unify. Knowledge of R and Python (development skills are not required). Knowledge of ETL technology e.g. Informatica, AWS Glue, Snowflake, PostgresSQL. Understanding of data visualization tools, e.g., Qlik, Power BI, Tableau. Understanding of system architecture and integration.
• Soft Skills: Consultative mindset, a problem solver with a natural desire to explore how new tools can be deployed to automate processes and drive efficiencies; Being a natural self-starter, collaborator and leader, with a desire to challenge current ways of working as well as strong communicator and excellent relationship-building skills.
• Strong portfolio and project management skills, including Agile delivery methodology.
• Transformation experience either from a background in Management Consultancy or in-house change is preferable working with business and technical stakeholders.
• Knowledge of Finance processes and associated risk and control environment.

What you’ll get for this role:

• Salary around £70,000 (National) - £85,000 (London) - 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.

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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