Financial Operations Analyst

Finance Operations Analyst

12 Months Fixed Term Contract

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 (effective April 2026) depending on the experience you can bring

Closing date: 11 February

We’re a company of ambitious, collaborative, problem-solvers who get things done. We strive to make sure everyone that works for us feel seen, heard, and valued – so we’re looking for like-minded people to join us.

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 looking for a Finance Operations analyst to join our Finance Operations Team in Edinburgh on a 12 Months Fixed Term basis. The Team are responsible for the integrity and controls operating over the financial transactions within Aegon UK’s ledgers, ensuring they are robust, effective and accurate. In this role you will support the day-to-day delivery of Finance Operations, ensuring high-quality service aligned to standards and deadlines.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Being responsible for preparing and reviewing journals, accruals & prepayments, day to day bank & balance sheet reconciliations and preparation of accounts to trial balance level.
• Reviewing Trial Balances and performing analytical reviews across all entities on balances, movements and trends for completeness before inclusion in financial reporting.
• Representing Finance Operations on local & corporate initiatives to ensure that all risks, controls & accounting are captured, through design & reconciliation.
• Experience of using continuous improvement tools through to implementation.
• Leading the review of end to end processing to continually improve the process for efficiency, mitigate risks and enhance controls.
• Support the execution of various audits and financial close deliverables within Finance Operations, serving as the main point of contact for auditors, coordinating responses and addressing technical questions.
• Drive continuous improvement within the team to enhance process efficiency and maintain a robust control environment by leading the creation of plans and identifying and implementing effective solutions.

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

• Experience of Financial Services general ledger and technical accounting.
• Strong understanding of accounting frameworks and ability to articulate technical concepts.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical thinking, and an eye for detail and passion for accuracy.
• Experience of banking processes and systems.
• Have or studying towards ACCA, AAT or equivalent.

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.

To find out more about what to expect at Aegon, visit our website.

We ask everyone to be brave, raise their game, deliver first time, help others, and act in everyone’s best interests. If you recognise yourself in this, we’d love to hear from you.

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.