Job Type: Permanent
Location: This role could be based in either our Birmingham, Edinburgh or London office, with normally a min of 2 days a week working in an office and the rest working at home.
Flexible Working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about Phoenix Flex here.
Closing Date: 7th September
Salary and benefits: £135,000 - £150,000 plus an indicative bonus range of 30%-60%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.

As the Head of Audit Finance, Actuarial & Asset Management you will have the opportunity to make a real difference to Phoenix. This role is critical to the delivery of GIA’s assurance agenda, providing essential opinions, guidance and challenge to the business for the improvement of risk management, control and culture. You will have:

• Effective leadership of the Finance, Actuarial & Asset Management Audit portfolio, delivering a value-add, outcomes focussed Audit Plan to quality, time and budget.
• Leading a high performing and engaged team; identifying the strengths of the team and its members, designing and delivering coaching and effective performance management to enable all to reach their potential.
• Accountable for audit quality in relation to your portfolio, ensuring that methodology is followed and that all output is delivered to a consistently high standard. Also, developing and maintaining the Audit Universe and Plan for your audit portfolio / business area.
• Performing risk assessments as part of audit planning to ensure that the plan is risk-based and focused on the highest priorities of the business.
• Accountable for managing all resource, including co-source, in an efficient and effective way which optimises the strengths and needs of the team.
• Accountable for building and maintaining effective senior stakeholder relationships, including attendance at relevant governance forums for your portfolio.
• Liaising with 1st and 2nd Line Risk and Compliance functions to ensure assurance activities are coordinated
• Developing an in-depth understanding of the Phoenix strategic objectives and transformation agenda.
• Role modelling Phoenix leadership behaviours and playing a pivotal role in functional leadership.
• Supporting the Chief Audit Officer in providing opinions to the Audit Committee on risk, control and culture.

• Leading the regulatory interface for your audit portfolioProviding exemplary leadership in the design and delivery of GIA’s continuous improvement, effectiveness and efficiency agenda, leveraging and engaging resource from across the function, wider Group and co-source where necessary; continually seeking ways to optimise the efficiency and effectiveness of GIA’s systems and methodology