Jobs at Aviva plc

The Senior Financial Analyst strengthens the financial control environment by reviewing balance sheet reconciliations, testing internal controls, identifying financial and operational risks, and monitoring discrepancies. The role conducts process walkthroughs, prepares management reports, recommends improvements, supports control policy implementation, and trains finance teams. It also collaborates with finance, risk, and audit stakeholders on internal control and risk management projects.

Leads Aviva Canada's $165M+ high-net-worth insurance portfolio, overseeing strategy, profitable growth, underwriting performance, risk selection, pricing execution, customer propositions, broker partnerships, and operational excellence. The role manages transformation, cross-functional collaboration, regulatory and financial outcomes, and a high-performing underwriting team while balancing growth, profitability, client experience, and portfolio risk.

Lead the development, monitoring, and enhancement of personal insurance pricing and ratemaking models. Analyze portfolio performance, market trends, and competitive dynamics to recommend pricing actions. Support regulatory rate filings, manage pricing projects, collaborate with cross-functional partners, and mentor actuarial analysts. Apply traditional actuarial and advanced analytical techniques to improve profitability, growth, customer retention, and pricing effectiveness.

Leads corporate actuarial activities supporting Solvency UK capital requirements, internal model governance, risk calibrations, and Chief Actuary opinions. Reviews methods, assumptions, data quality, model weaknesses, and validation documentation. Collaborates with economic capital, pricing, reserving, reinsurance, risk, finance, and global actuarial teams. Requires property and casualty or financial services actuarial experience, 3–5 CAS exams, regulatory knowledge, strong analytical skills, and effective stakeholder communication.

Leads enterprise data design and governance across insurance domains, defining conceptual, logical, and physical models, data standards, contracts, metadata, lineage, and privacy controls. Partners with business, architecture, engineering, analytics, and AI teams to deliver scalable data solutions across warehouses, lakes, APIs, and operational platforms. Applies Property and Casualty insurance expertise and ACORD standards while guiding migration, modernization, AI-ready data, model lifecycle management, observability, and cross-domain governance.

Develop and deploy machine learning and statistical models for commercial property and casualty insurance pricing. Responsibilities include transforming large datasets into insights, building claims and pricing models, managing the full model lifecycle, monitoring performance, improving reproducibility, maintaining data-mining tools, and communicating recommendations to business and technology partners.

Develop and monitor advanced actuarial pricing models for commercial property and casualty insurance. Analyze loss costs, customer demand, portfolio shifts, and emerging segment behavior, then communicate recommendations to business stakeholders. Collaborate with data scientists, underwriters, and actuaries while supporting model validation, innovation, continuous improvement, and mentoring. The role requires Python proficiency and familiarity with SAS and VBA.

Leads intake and evaluation of new group insurance business within Personal Insurance. Coordinates internal teams and external distribution partners, reports application results, manages stakeholder relationships, supports process, policy, risk, and control improvements, represents the group segment in committees and projects, and coordinates technology changes. Requires 5+ years of P&C underwriting experience, insurance value-chain knowledge, business analytics, communication, collaboration, and project management skills.

Design, build, and optimize scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines and analytical datasets using Snowflake and Qlik. Own end-to-end delivery from requirements to support, implement data modeling and performance/cost optimizations, automate ingestion and transformations, monitor and troubleshoot pipelines and reports, and collaborate with claims, analytics, and actuarial teams to translate business needs into robust data solutions while supporting migration and modernization efforts.

Develop and deploy machine learning and statistical models for Commercial Auto Pricing, claims prediction, customer optimization, and automation. Responsibilities include transforming large datasets into insights, partnering with Pricing, managing the full model lifecycle, monitoring model performance, maintaining data science tools, improving reproducibility, and communicating recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Manage full-cycle recruitment for a growing automotive collision repair facility, including intake meetings, sourcing, screening, interviewing, reference checks, offers, background checks, and onboarding. Build candidate pipelines, support hiring managers with assessments and recruitment data, maintain positive candidate experiences, and develop relationships with colleges, industry associations, and community partners. The role requires recruiting across multiple locations and managing high-volume hiring priorities.

Leads Aviva Canada's national personal auto underwriting portfolio, setting underwriting, product, risk, regulatory, and modernization strategies. Oversees analytics- and AI-supported underwriting, regulatory filings, compliance, portfolio monitoring, product reviews, and profitable growth. Partners with Pricing, IT, Distribution, Operations, Digital, Claims, Risk, Legal, and Government Relations teams to improve automation, efficiency, customer experience, and broker service. Requires senior insurance underwriting leadership, regulatory expertise across Canada, strong analytical judgment, and stakeholder influence.

Supports insurance pricing innovation through Earnix platform evaluation, implementation, automation, demand modeling, price optimization, advanced analytics, testing, documentation, and user adoption. Partners with actuarial, pricing, data science, and IT teams to pilot capabilities, improve pricing effectiveness and operational efficiency, and provide subject matter expertise. The role also includes coaching team members and communicating analytical recommendations.

Leads pricing and actuarial analysis for large commercial insurance accounts across Property, Casualty, and Auto products. Responsibilities include rate adequacy analysis, complex portfolio pricing reviews, alternative pricing solutions, credit risk evaluation, portfolio monitoring, and recommendations to underwriters and senior leaders. The role also drives analytical improvements and mentors actuarial analysts and students while supporting the performance and profitability of the commercial insurance business.

Leads second-line oversight of technology, cybersecurity, data privacy, data governance, and transformation risks. The role conducts risk reviews, assesses controls, produces insight-driven reporting, challenges business partners, and strengthens governance and regulatory alignment. It also advances responsible adoption of GenAI, automation, data ethics, and Secure by Design practices while advising senior leaders and supporting trusted customer outcomes.

Leads independent second-line oversight and challenge for technology, data, cyber, AI, transformation, operational resilience, and third-party risks. Advises senior executives and risk committees, oversees risk frameworks and exposures, reviews major transformation initiatives, supports regulatory engagement, and leads specialist risk teams across Aviva Canada.

Provides independent oversight and challenge of insurance risk across Aviva Canada. Responsibilities include monitoring exposures, limits, risk appetite metrics, and governance; conducting risk deep dives; assessing pricing, underwriting, capital, reserving, reinsurance, and model risks; developing risk opinions; identifying emerging risks; and advising senior stakeholders and governance committees. The role supports the Chief Risk Officer and strengthens the enterprise Risk Management Framework.

Leads sales performance, revenue growth, portfolio management, and strategic planning for Group and Specialty Programs within a major insurance partnership. Owns partner relationships, monitors sales targets, identifies business development opportunities, resolves escalations, and collaborates with sales, service, and digital teams to improve customer experience and digital sales. Requires strong insurance business management, analytical, communication, negotiation, networking, and relationship-management skills.

Leads complex IT programs from initiation through delivery, managing scope, schedules, budgets exceeding $10 million, risks, governance, quality, and financial controls. Coordinates internal teams, vendors, executives, and onshore/offshore partners while balancing Agile delivery with governance requirements. Oversees multiple projects, drives stakeholder alignment, resolves issues, manages change, and ensures successful outcomes within budget and established standards. Insurance and transformational program experience is preferred, with Guidewire and cloud technology experience considered an asset.

Leads Aviva Canada’s enterprise risk management function, overseeing risk strategy, governance, risk appetite, insurance and financial risk, capital, models, analytics, and independent challenge. Advises executives, the Board, regulators, and business leaders on strategic decisions, emerging risks, and regulatory obligations. Oversees risk partnering and quantitative risk teams, strengthens risk culture, and ensures effective mitigation, reporting, model validation, and organizational resilience.