Residential Property and Surveying Senior Manager We have an exciting and unique opportunity to join our Equity Release (ER) business. Join our team and drive the residential property underwriting strategy If you are an established leader and a qualified surveyor with residential property experience who strives in a networking role, we would love to hear from you A bit about the job: You’ll be responsible to ensure that the properties that Aviva Equity Release takes as security for its Lifetime Mortgages represent an acceptable risk, with the focus on future saleability and value. This encompasses ownership of the property lending criteria for the Equity Release business, updating the senior leadership and Board on issues facing the business and changes to the underwriting criteria, managing the professional relationship with our external valuers, ensuring underwriters’ competence in property matters through training and mentoring, and taking individual large loan and complex property underwriting decisions. The role delivers rigorous and competitive property lending criteria and ensures that the back book (currently £12bn in loans) is sound, reducing the risk of potential for future losses, and the role holder acts as the public face of property aspects of the Equity Release business within the Financial Adviser community. You will also be responsible for managing a team of 5 that ensures our residential property underwriting strategy is understood and implemented correctly across the Aviva Equity Release business, reviewing, and updating the underwriting rules used by the business will also be part of your role, alongside liaising with our external valuers and various stakeholders across Aviva Group. The successful post-holder will need to be based a commutable distance from our York office with a willingness to travel to London or Norwich 1-2 times per month. Skills and experience we’re looking for: Senior/management level experience within the surveying profession, either private practice or client-side with a focus on residential property Strong stakeholder management, leadership, influencing and communication skills - confident with public speaking and presenting to diverse communities including boards, colleagues at all levels, suppliers, and Financial Advisers A deep understanding of residential property, preferably with a background in transactions and valuations in a diverse range of property types, and detailed knowledge of construction methods Understanding of the legal issues in property transactions including tenure, options, overages, wayleaves, easements, covenants etc Qualified Chartered Surveyor – Fellow or Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS or MRIC) What you’ll get for this role: 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 have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague. Salary 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. Take a look to learn more. Put a salary into this calculator to see what your total Aviva Reward could be. 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. To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, 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 require an alternative method of applying, please send an email to beatrix.rozsaaviva.com