Senior Property Strategy Finance Manager

This is a great job for someone who has a strong financial background and is looking to apply their expertise in a strategic property context. You’ll thrive in this role if you’re commercially astute, confident in financial modelling, and experienced in building business cases that influence senior decision-makers. This role is ideal for someone with a professional finance qualification who enjoys working across geographies and business units to deliver cost-effective, value-driven property strategies.

A bit about the job: This role sits within Aviva’s Group Property team, working on high-profile projects where you will play a key part in shaping our global property portfolio strategy. You’ll be responsible for developing and delivering financially sound location strategies across the UK, Ireland, Canada, and Aviva Investors’ overseas offices. From early-stage M&A involvement to supporting major organisational change, you’ll provide financial insight and strategic recommendations that ensure our property decisions align with business goals and deliver measurable value.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Professional accountancy qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
• Highly commercial, strong influencing and negotiation skills and used to C-suite interaction
• Experience in strategic planning (business goal setting, plans to achieve, success factors)
• Scenario modelling/Cost & Benefit Analysis to aid decision-making, identification of benefits streams and their measurement
• Significant report writing, PowerPoint and presentation skills

What you’ll get: 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 want you to shine. That’s why we have so much to offer you:

• Salary around £80,000 (national) – £90,000 (London) - depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications
• Bonus opportunity – 12% of annual salary, depending on your performance and the business
• Generous pension scheme – we’ll contribute up to 14%
• Get up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan
• Make your money go further – up to 40% discount on Aviva products, plus other retailer discounts
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays – you can buy or sell up to 5 days
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
• Industry-leading access to life and healthcare cover with discounted car and home insurance rates, including offers for friends and family too
• Fully paid maternity/paternity leave
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
• Get free access to a wealth of resources that will help look after your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing, including company-funded Group Income Protection, Aviva Digicare+ and the popular Headspace app
• Full financial support to pursue insurance qualifications
• Digital access to all sorts of useful on-demand learning content
• Aviva University and its business academies give you everything you need to empower your growth

Aviva is for everyone: We’re 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. Don’t let it be a barrier to your application. And if you’re in a job share, feel free to 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. We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied online, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you. We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you need a different way of applying, please send an email to balazs.palcsek@aviva.com.