Investment Compliance Advisory Manager UK

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.

This is a second line role reporting to the Head of UK Investment Compliance. The Investment Compliance Advisory Manager is primarily responsible for providing compliance advice and robust challenge to the UK Investment and associated Operations teams, with responsibilities extending across a global operating environment. The role also supports the preparation of updates for boards and governance forums on behalf of the wider UK Compliance team, working collaboratively with other team members. The UK Investment Compliance team provides regulatory advice and support to the Aberdeen Investment entities in the UK.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish and develop stakeholder relationships with key first line staff covering portfolio management, regulatory reporting, and client group.
• Ensure compliance has appropriate visibility of activities within key business areas to provide appropriate challenge.
• Lead board and governance reporting processes for all internal forums and boards, ensuring that regulatory developments, regulatory engagement and other compliance matters are appropriately communicated to the business.
• Take the lead on analysing new regulation in order to provide tailored advice to business stakeholders and support implementation projects.
• Provide regulatory advice on topics such as CSDR, non‑reporting EMIR requirements, MiFID transaction reporting, MiFID trade reporting, EMIR reporting, SFTR, major shareholder reporting, SDR, SFDR, SRD, stewardship code, research, derivative trading obligation, securitisation, short selling, UCITS, NURS, MMFR and costs and charges reporting.
• Provide additional regulatory advice alongside the Investment Compliance Advisory Consultant and the Head of UK Investment Compliance on matters such as new product launches, regulatory investment limit queries, institutional client conflicts, conflicts within private or public market teams, support of ESG investing, changes to research payments, and all regulatory reporting regimes.
• Provide training sessions for the business on regulatory limit regulations, such as UCITS, NURS, MMFR, alongside the Investment Compliance Advisory Consultant.
• Liaise and share knowledge with the Market Conduct team and other areas of Risk & Compliance.
• Work with Regulatory Developments to provide the business with effective regulatory development updates.
• Collaborate and maintain relationships with global risk & compliance teams.
• Maintain independence as a second line function.
• Encourage a good compliance culture amongst first line staff and adherence to apportionment of responsibilities in line with SMCR.

About The Candidate:

• Extensive asset management/compliance experience.
• Possess and be able to demonstrate a working knowledge of COBS, SYSC, SMCR, sustainability, stewardship, MIFID regulatory reporting, research, regulatory investment limits (UCITS, MMFR, NURS, securitisation, short selling).
• Interest in finance and good financial knowledge, e.g. different asset classes, instrument types, and the services provided by asset management firms.
• Exposure to asset management front office and back‑office processes.

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.