Finance Controls Manager

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 Role

The Finance Controls Manager plays a key leadership role within the Finance Controls Office (FCO), providing oversight, direction and continuity across Finance controls activity. The role leads a team of Finance Controls professionals and is responsible for delivery of key priorities across the Finance risk and control agenda.

Primarily, the role supports the Finance function in complying with the Enterprise-Wide Risk Management Framework (ERMF) and evolving regulatory expectations, while driving improvements in the control environment, governance and risk culture across Finance.

Working closely with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams, the role holder provides specialist guidance on risk and control matters, oversees key controls processes, and supports effective remediation of issues and events.

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting the Finance function in meeting ERMF requirements through oversight of risk and control processes, including RCSA activity, risk issues, events and control mapping.
• Providing specialist guidance and challenge to Finance stakeholders on risk and control matters, helping to strengthen the control environment and promote consistent application of best practice.
• Supporting governance forums, reporting and management information with high-quality, action-focused MI to enable effective oversight and decision-making across Finance and wider Group fora.
• Coordinating support for internal audit, external audit and regulatory activity impacting Finance, and monitoring remediation activity to ensure timely and robust closure of actions.
• Working with stakeholders across Finance and other functions to drive improvements, support education and upskilling on risk and control matters, and promote a strong risk and control culture.
• Overseeing the use and development of control systems, reporting and AI-enabled initiatives to support consistent, efficient and well-evidenced controls management.

About the Candidate

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• Accounting qualification (e.g. ICAS, ACCA) (essential)
• Strong understanding of ERMF, internal control frameworks, governance requirements and the operation of key Finance controls processes (essential)
• Experience leading teams, setting direction and delivering priorities in a changing environment, with the credibility to operate effectively at senior stakeholder level (essential)
• Able to engage confidently with stakeholders across Finance and other functions, communicate clearly, provide challenge where appropriate, and influence effective outcomes (essential)
• Able to identify opportunities to improve controls, reporting and processes, with strong attention to detail and a focus on practical delivery (essential)
• Experience working across a global business and coordinating activity across teams and locations to maintain quality, consistency and effective delivery (desirable)
• Experience using Power BI, Power Automate or similar productivity tools to support management information, automation and process enhancement (desirable)

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.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment.  We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance.  We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.

If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.