Overview
Finance Control Assistant Manager – Edinburgh
Job Description
At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group.
Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent.
Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society.
We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.
Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs:
- interactive investor, the UK’s second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.
- Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
- Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.
About the Department
The Aberdeen Finance Controls Office was established to support the Finance function comply with our Enterprise-Wide Risk Management Framework (“ERMF”) and evolving requirements from global regulators, including the revised UK Corporate Governance Code, which will require enhanced reporting on our internal control environment and assurance process.
The Finance Controls Office is an experienced and ambitious team with a remit to enhance internal controls across Finance and support the wider business to implement the necessary procedures to successfully provide an enhanced external attestation.
About the Role
This role is part of a team that will support the business achieve the following goals:
- Drive action-focused, high quality Finance Governance & MI Reporting
- Improve Finance’s overall conformance with the firm’s ERMF
- Remediation support for control design and operating weaknesses
- Education and upskilling for Finance on the topic of risk management and control
Key Responsibilities
- Supporting the FCO Managers to design, collate, and agree metrics which support the CFO and Wider Finance Leadership Team oversee the overall ‘health’ of the Finance department across risk, people, and operational matters.
- Supporting the management of Risk Issues and Associated actions, overseeing these to ensure enhancements to process and control are robust.
- Liaising with External Auditor as required on behalf of FCO, including co-ordinating, ongoing monitoring, and supporting validation of closure, for Management Letter Points by relevant owners.
- Coordinate mandatory and ad hoc Finance risk and control reporting to other fora across the Group (e.g. Executive Risk Forum, Adviser Risk Board, and other regular reporting that may be required in future)
- Support the chair of the WNS JRCC and FLT Risk & Control committee with effective materials and an efficient agenda.
- Working collegiately as part of the Finance Controls Office and wider Finance team, supporting the overall team activities, supporting deliverables, and assisting with other risk and control related activities as required
- Supporting the maintenance of risk and control databases for the Finance Function, including involvement in documenting risk events and issues to internal systems on behalf of the relevant Risk, Control, Events, and Issue owners.
About the Candidate
The ideal candidate will possess the following:
- Risk and control frameworks – experience working with or assessing systems of internal control, managing risk event data, and challenging stakeholders on risk management practices.
- Interpersonal skills – deliver with quality and impact in a proactive and collaborative manner
- Communication – ability to communicate effectively with the team, and with stakeholders at various levels
- Impact and influence – operates with intellectual curiosity to understand and surface insights that helps strengthen the design and operation of the internal control framework
- Global approach – a number of the processes and controls operate across Aberdeen’s global business and therefore experience of operating across a global business is preferred
- Attention to detail – works with precision to deliver requirements, with a focus on quality
- Collaboration – outcome focussed with ability to facilitate collaborative working within and across teams
- Technology capabilities – Experience using AI and Automation tools (CoPilot, Power BI) is preferred. Proficiency in MS Application Suite, in particular Excel and PowerPoint is required.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.
Our benefits
There’s more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.
When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here.
Our business
Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here.
An inclusive way of working
Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you.
At Aberdeen we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.
An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements – for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability – please let us know and we’ll be happy to help.
