Adviser Business Partner in Edinburgh

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: Our Business Partnering team provides commercial financial support and challenge to senior customers within our business. The consultant role forms part of this team, providing financial support and analysis, for the purposes of facilitating commercial and strategic decision making. This support is provided to business stakeholders, Business Partners and the CFO, focused on working closely with the Adviser business and the broader Finance function. The role operates as a member of this team and includes active participation in senior stakeholder meetings. The team provides critical support and analysis to our Business Partners and senior business stakeholders who are operating in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

About the role: The incumbent of this role will work closely with colleagues and the key business stakeholders to support commercial and strategic decision making, helping to ensure commercial objectives are met. Responsibility will include working with colleagues to deliver a consistent and high-quality approach to the production of insight and information.

Key Responsibilities:

• Preparing financial modelling and analysis to support key commercial and strategic decision making covering a range of initiatives. Approach and techniques will include performing market analysis, performance tracking, business intelligence, and planning and forecasting.
• Providing and evaluating non-routine analysis of financial performance, trends and variance analysis, with supporting improvement recommendations. Key outputs include financial analysis to support leadership reviews.
• Supporting the automation of routine analysis by facilitating the incorporation of procedures within Financial Operations and Reporting.
• Working closely with the accounting team to ensure that new business initiatives are supported by appropriate technical opinions and consequent financial accounting records and representation in the general ledger is correct.
• Embracing new technologies to increase productivity by developing automated reporting and analysis tools.
• Demonstrating robust modelling by ensuring analysis is drawn from robust data sources and contains appropriate control and validation steps.

About the Candidate:

• Ability to leverage market perspective when interpreting and communicating data.
• Ability to provide guidance and business support that balances business need and corporate compliance.
• Excellent analytical ability with a good attention to detail.
• Prepares and delivers clear, concise, accurate, and effective written and verbal material/messages according to the needs of the audience.
• Strong application of IT skills, importantly ability to construct and interpret financial models using Excel.
• An awareness of Digital technologies.
• Demonstrates credibility with stakeholders (relationships, communication, influence and confidence).
• Determined and assertive, prepared to get into the detail to understand the complex commercial drivers of the business.
• Takes personal accountability for quality and delivery.
• Good time management skills, ability to prioritise workload and ability to work to strict reporting deadlines.
• Self-starter, ability to work with minimal supervision.

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.

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.