FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

• Contribute to the annual budget via the planning dialogue, and monitor and report on relevant aspects of the IT budget.
• Ensure that IT applications and services are delivered within budget and provide value for money; whilst maintaining compliance.
• Financial responsibility of IT applications including total cost of ownership, and how this can be optimised.
• Manage expenditure to ensure this remains within budget, seeking prior authorisation for any additional unbudgeted expenditure.

EXPERIENCE:

• Extensive experience operating at a senior level in IT within a regulated industry.
• Extensive experience in supplier relations and supplier assurance.
• Understanding of outsource vendor governance and management practices.
• Experience in IT contract and license management and negotiation.
• Understanding of IT security management processes, practices and technology.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Able to demonstrate leadership experience
• Able to demonstrate mastery of the managing the trade-offs that may be necessary between concept and delivery.
• Commercially savvy —able to work with suppliers and other Allianz teams to deliver the best value for Allianz overall.
• Commercial and general Insurance knowledge.
• Broad and deep technology, systems integration knowledge.
• Deep understanding of solutions available in the market.
• Deep understanding of IT risk management processes.
• Management of third party service providers — both onshore and offshore.
• IT contract & License management and negotiation.
• Extensive experience of ITIL disciplines
• Management and governance of IT outsourced and offshore third-parties, in particular for application development and service provision.
• Extensive experience and understanding of development and application standards, including
• Extensive experience and understanding of system testing approaches, methods and tools
• Extensive experience of configuration management processes and disciplines
• Extensive understanding and experience or IT service introduction methods, disciplines, tools and reporting.

As Head of Application Services you will report directly into the Chief Information Officer (CIO), working closely with the Chief Operating Officer, Commercial, Personal and Specialty Managing Directors and their leadership teams, Chief Transformation Officer, and all Heads of Change, as well as senior stakeholders both across the UK and other OEs.
You will be accountable for the governance and management of the services provided for our outsourced applications in the Allianz Holdings IT application estate; to ensure a timely and high-quality service is provided.
This includes responsibility for the demand and development of applications and IT services from Allianz Holdings into Allianz Technology, strategic direction, ensuring alignment with Group standards, whilst maximising value from the IT spend.