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Industry SectorInsurance
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Graduate intake per year7
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Starting salary£14,500

Aviva

A real job from day one. A professional qualification in three to four years. Long-term prospects. And no student debt. If you want to build a career in Underwriting or Actuarial Science with the UK’s biggest insurer, we’re the smart alternative to university.

The Aviva Apprentice Programme
We will always need experts. So we’ve created the Aviva Apprentice Programme to help develop them. You could join us as an Underwriting Apprentice and learn how to assess risk and underwrite our various insurance policies. Or as an Actuarial Apprentice, becoming part of the large Actuarial team that advises and innovates on our financial strategy, not only across the UK, but our businesses overseas as well.

Either way, you’ll develop life-changing skills and gain a professional qualification that will open up as many - if not more – opportunities as a degree.

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About us

With a reputation that stretches back 300 years and a total focus on what our customers want, we’ve become the world’s sixth-largest insurance group and the biggest in the UK. What makes us different is that, despite our size, we work hard to recognise the individual needs of every one of our customers, offering them prosperity and peace of mind wherever and whoever they are. We recognise our people too – valuing them for what they do, rewarding them for their contribution and encouraging them to achieve their career goals.

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Please refer to our website, http://apprentices.aviva.co.uk/ for further information.

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Departments

Underwriting
You’ll be joining one of the industry's most renowned underwriting teams – one that creates, develops and manages the personal underwriting and pricing strategy across our UK business. They set the prices for motor, home, travel, creditor, personal accident and all other personal lines business and make financial decisions on the levels of risk Aviva will insure against.

Actuarial
You’ll be joining one of the industry’s most respected and influential actuarial teams – one that advises and innovates on our financial strategy, not only across the UK, but our businesses overseas as well. Actuaries paint a picture of the future with numbers. Experts in risk management, they use their mathematical skills to measure the probability of future events. And here at Aviva, those measurements predict how our life, pensions and general insurance products will fare, and how well our own IT, marketing and business operations will work.

Please refer to our website, http://apprentices.aviva.co.uk/ for further information.

Basic Requirements

What we’re looking for
You must have, or expect, at least 3 A Levels or Scottish Highers at Grade B. (That’s equivalent to 300 UCAS points excluding General Studies.) We also expect a minimum of five GCSEs at grades A-C, with two of those in Maths and English. Confidence and flexibility are key too, as is the determination to develop a long-term career with us.

Salary and Benefits

Your starting salary of £14,500 will rise to around £22,500 as you put the work in. In fact, by the end of four years, you could be on the same money as someone joining our graduate scheme – but you’ll already have vital professional qualifications under your belt.
With the help of structured training and experienced mentors, you’ll learn how to work independently, build your professional know-how and grow in confidence. And you won’t have to worry about facing a tough job market or a mountain of student debt.

Please refer to our website, http://apprentices.aviva.co.uk/ for further information.

Application Process

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Training

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Development

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A day in the life of a graduate employee

Luke Allen
Trainee Trading Underwriter

1. How did you get into your Apprenticeship?
I found the Aviva Apprentice Programme through an internet search. I was employed part-time and looking for full-time jobs. A search took me through to an advertised job which then took me through to the Aviva careers website. It outlined the Apprentice Programme and it was exactly the type of thing I was looking for. There is a dedicated section which answers any questions you could have about the scheme. I applied for the position and shortly after I was invited to an assessment day in London with the other potential candidates. The assessment day gave a much broader overview of the plan for the Programme. A few weeks after the assessment day I was offered the job which I had great pleasure in accepting.

2. Had you previously thought about a job in Insurance?
In all honesty I hadn’t thought about it. A friend had spoken to me about how he was looking for a similar role which then prompted me to look. Since starting the job I can see that there are so many opportunities within Insurance and this is definitely an excellent starting point.

3. How does the Aviva Underwriting Apprentice Programme set you up for a career in Insurance?
The Aviva Underwriting Apprentice Programme gives you the essential knowledge of how the Insurance market works and different aspects of insurance. It allows you to gain in-depth technical knowledge about the different products that Aviva offers and how that translates to everyday life. The Programme also offers the chance to study for the CII qualification, which is a universally recognised qualification in Insurance and which opens up a number of potential career opportunities within the industry.

4. What’s the most rewarding part of your job?
The most rewarding part of my job is knowing that every day I come to work I will be learning something new. As an Underwriter no one day is the same as there are many different types of risks that need to be looked at, so it’s always new and exciting.

5. What’s the biggest challenge you have faced, and overcome, so far?
I would say the biggest challenge I have faced so far is learning all the systems which are involved to complete day-to-day work. With any job, the only way to overcome this is with time and plenty of practice.

6. What would you say to someone considering an Apprenticeship?
To someone considering an Apprenticeship I would say definitely go for it. An Apprenticeship is a brilliant opportunity to not only earn money but also learn vital information while doing so. As I have already said, the Aviva Apprentice Programme sponsors the learning of the CII qualification which is an attractive thing to have when looking for different roles and builds the foundations for gaining a wealth of knowledge in the Insurance industry.

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Corporate Social Responsibility

By acting responsibly for the long term in how we do business we will meet our ambition to provide prosperity and peace of mind to our customers.

At Aviva we believe that corporate responsibility means taking positive action, treating our colleagues, customers and suppliers with respect, applying consistently high standards in everything we do and having a constructive role in the communities in which we operate. Our vision and strategy for CR is aligned to the company strategy and informed by stakeholder analysis, to make sure that we meet their needs, from our employees and customers to our shareholders and investors.

Our programme covers all our business operations worldwide. It is overseen at group level by the group CR team, led by Marie Sigsworth, group CR director. Appointed managers in the businesses are responsible for managing the CR programme locally. We also have a dedicated Board CR Committee which is responsible for CR strategy and policy, and for reviewing the progress of our CR programme. The committee comprises three non-executive directors, Aviva's chairman and the group's chief executive. Further details can be found in the CR committee's Terms of Reference and our latest CR report.

Our performance in developing and managing our CR programme is recognised by a range of external parties, including indices, ratings agencies and investors. We also work closely with leading organisations to share good practice, identify emerging issues and improve our performance. View our CR report to learn more about our achievements and external engagements in 2011.

Please refer to our website, http://www.aviva.com/corporate-responsibility/ for further information.

History and Vision

Our reputation stretches back over 300 years to 1696. This was when the Hand-in-Hand was founded at a meeting in Tom’s Coffee House, St Martin’s Lane, London. Once the world’s oldest existing fire insurance office, the Hand-in-Hand was also the forerunner of the modern cooperative system.

Since then, many companies and countries have formed part of Aviva's rich history. As well as one of the oldest fire insurers, the Aviva Group includes the oldest mutual life insurer, the first company to issue a burglary policy, and the first and only insurance company to hold a royal warrant. In fact, thanks to over 650 companies, we’ve covered almost every area of insurance all over the world.

The Aviva of today was created by the merger of CGU and Norwich Union in May 2000. The group was rebranded Aviva in July 2002.

Please refer to our website, http://apprentices.aviva.co.uk/ for further information.