Senior Investment Risk Manager

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.

The Investment Risk Governance team sits within the Risk & Compliance function and plays a critical role in Aberdeen’s oversight framework. The team provides assurance that risks across public markets portfolios are well understood, appropriately managed and aligned to client outcomes. Working across asset classes and partnering with portfolio managers, product teams and governance bodies, the team helps enable our clients to be better investors by ensuring robust, transparent and forward-looking risk oversight.

As a Senior Investment Risk Manager based in London, you will deliver independent oversight and challenge across risks taken within Aberdeen’s public markets funds and mandates. Operating in the second line of defence, you will assess risk exposures, provide clear assurance to senior stakeholders, engage with portfolio managers and contribute to product development and model validation. This permanent role offers high visibility across the business, opportunities to work with senior forums and access to multiple asset class teams, supporting your development as you invest in your tomorrow through meaningful impact and technical depth.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide independent oversight and assurance across investment risks in public markets portfolios, escalating issues where needed.
• Review and enhance investment risk policies, limits and procedures to meet regulatory expectations and best practice.
• Monitor market developments, stress tests and risk metrics across market, credit, liquidity and ESG risks.
• Validate risk models, including fundamental and statistical factor models, and contribute to thematic reviews.
• Engage with portfolio managers, product teams, governance bodies and clients to embed strong risk practices and provide clear insights.
• Support new product approval processes from a second-line investment risk perspective, including setting appropriate risk limits.

About the Candidate

• Significant investment risk experience, ideally in asset management with cross-asset exposure.
• Strong technical skills including Python, VBA, SQL and familiarity with risk modelling approaches.
• Ability to communicate complex risk concepts clearly and influence senior stakeholders.
• Experience working in first- or second-line functions, with strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Understanding of investment management and investment risk management based on practical experience.
• Professional qualifications such as CFA or FRM are 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.

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.

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, 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.