Financial Reporting Accountant – 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.

This position sits within Group Finance who are responsible for a combination of Group reporting, financial planning and analysis, Treasury and Capital.

This is an important role within the Group reporting team in finance. The role holder will lead on the production of the Strategic report within the ARA including liaising with the external design agency and a range of internal stakeholders. The role holder will also support a range of additional reporting and technical accounting related tasks.

Key Responsibilities

• Overall lead on the Strategic report section of the Group’s ARA and HYR announcement. Content and design should be enhanced to reflect changes in regulation, best practice in narrative reporting and business priorities.
• Responsibilities include project managing the overall strategic report, drafting of the Chief Financial Officer’s overview section, supporting / reviewing other allocated sections and overall document management.
• Ensuring accurate reporting of adjusted operating profit and other key performance indicators both internally and externally, supporting elements of the monthly / quarterly reporting process including segmental reporting, Associates / joint ventures and significant listed investments.
• Oversee the Strategic report verification process and ensure robust financial controls across all relevant processes / systems (including Workiva).
• Key point of contact for areas across the Group for adjusted profit methodology related queries.
• Supporting the team on the Group’s IFRS external reporting to the market, including reporting in the annual report and accounts, and the Half year results document.

About the Candidate

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• Demonstrable corporate reporting experience within financial services.
• Recognised accountancy qualification (ACA / ACCA) or equivalent / similar.
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills. This includes the ability to communicate complex matters to a range of audiences.
• Proficiency in financial systems and advanced Excel skills.

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.