Financial Controller

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 Finance function, led by the Chief Financial Officer, is structured into four group teams and three commercially focused business units supporting Interactive Investor, Advisor, and Investments. The function is further enabled by a dedicated Finance COO Office, ensuring operational excellence and strategic alignment.

About the Role

As an Entity Financial Controller, the role holder is responsible for the financial management of specific entities across the Aberdeen Group, leveraging the output of the Finance Operations team while providing oversight and challenge. Depending on experience and demands of specific entities, the role holder may be expected to act as a finance representative on the Board of specific entities.

Key Responsibilities

• Review and sign-off on commentary on legal entity financials, delivering insights to internal and external stakeholders and sign-off on monthly legal entity financials.
• Ownership of monthly legal entity P&L and balance sheet packs to ensure IFRS balances are valid, accurate, and complete. Investigating and challenging commentary where necessary.
• Oversee the production and submission of statutory accounts, regulatory reporting, and local statistical reports.
• Support the calculation, review, and posting of technical adjustments for complex valuations, impairments, write-offs, and exceptional transactions.
• Support the legal entity planning process working together with the Performance and Planning team.

About the Candidate

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• Qualified Accountant (CA/ACCA) with ideally, an audit background.
• Demonstratable experience in a similar financial control or commercial finance role.
• Knowledge and understanding of accounting principles, practices and processes, including financial reporting standards (IFRS or GAAP).
• Proficiency in financial systems and ERPs (e.g. Oracle).
• Experience with in investment management or a financial services environment is highly desirable but, not essential.

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…