Finance Assurance Analyst

Location: Edinburgh (We believe in the power of in-person collaboration, and our hybrid model requires colleagues to be in the office a minimum of 40% of their time)

Salary: A competitive salary from £33,520 - £41,900 depending on the experience you can bring

Closing date: 20th February 2026

We’re the UK’s largest investment platform, and we put financial wellbeing at the heart of our organisation. We work with customers, financial advisers and employers to provide pensions, savings and investment solutions. We help people live their best lives. We help them with the big stuff, for the moments that matter: Pensions, Savings, Investments. At Aegon, we strive in creating a diverse organisation that plays a meaningful role in driving greater equity, inclusion and belonging.

We are currently recruiting for a Finance Assurance Analyst to join our team in Edinburgh. In this role, you will perform a range of oversight and assurance activities to comply with relevant regulations including Sarbanes-Oxley and Solvency II. The focus will be on monitoring adherence and driving improvements to controls over financial reporting risks. This role acts as a pivotal link between Finance and wider business functions including IT, Customer Care and Proposition. You will conduct risk assessment and control testing to assess the effectiveness of the design and operation of controls. Effective communication with process and control owners is an essential element of the role to agree timetables, and evidence requirements, results and deficiency remediation actions.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Reviewing documentation of business processes, risks and controls. Arranging and conducting process walkthroughs to confirm the accuracy of the documentation and assessing the design effectiveness of the controls.
• Developing test plans designed to provide assurance of the effectiveness of controls, primarily those relevant to financial reporting.
• Testing of key controls to assess effectiveness, to identify deficiencies and related control improvements. Liaising with process and control owners to identify solutions to control issues, agreeing remediation actions. Producing and maintaining documentation of the testing performed to satisfy external audit.
• Planning and delivering tasks in accordance with the overall programme of risk and assurance activities of the Financial Controls Team.
• Building relationships with 1st and 2nd line colleagues and others to support collaborative work, whilst also maintaining a suitable level of independence.
• Providing challenge, support and advice to process and control owners within Finance and the wider business to influence them to develop, embed and maintain a strong risk and control culture.
• Delivering reporting and management information to meet the needs of stakeholders, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Steering Committee, Management Committees, Aegon Group and external audit.

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• Experience of Sarbanes-Oxley, Solvency II, and controls testing within a similar finance role.
• Prior experience of working in an oversight role – either in Finance, IT, Risk, Internal Audit or External Audit.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Excellent reporting and analysis skills, ideally using Excel.
• Knowledge of External audit functions, plus related governance and compliance.
• Relevant accounting qualifications, or the desire to obtain them.

We’re serious about your future and our enhanced pension scheme is now in place. We ask you to contribute 3% of your salary to your pension and we’ll put in 9%. If you decide to contribute more, we’ll match it up to a combined total of 20% of your salary (that’s 7% from you and 13% from us). A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance. 34 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time). We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave and a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our employees live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments.

If you’re looking for a role that challenges you and offers growth opportunities, we encourage you to apply. Join us and be part of a team that values innovation and excellence.

The legal bits

We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing satisfactory references.

Equal Opportunity Employer: We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their age, disability, race, religion/belief, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity.

Our story started over 190 years ago, right here in the UK. We were originally founded as Scottish Equitable, but today we’re part of Aegon. We’re the UK’s largest investment platform, and we put financial wellbeing at the heart of our organisation. As a purpose-led business, we’re focused on supporting our customers as they navigate through new stages of their lives and all the moments that matter. We’re here for everyone who wants to make the most of their time on the planet and leave it a little better than they found it, however grand or humble their ambitions. Working at Aegon, you’ll play an important part in helping achieve this.