About this Financial Controller role at abrdn
Job Description
About Aberdeen
Aberdeen plc is one of Europe’s largest investment companies, and we are built on a long-standing culture of caring about the future and making a positive impact. Together we invest for a better future. We do it to make a difference to the lives of our clients and customers, our employees, society, and our shareholders. Our business is structured around three distinct areas focused on our clients' changing needs: Aberdeen Investments, Aberdeen Adviser, and interactive investor. As an Entity Financial Controller, you'll play a key role in supporting this purpose while investing in your own tomorrow.
About the Department
Finance provides financial stewardship, insight and control across Aberdeen. Working closely with business leaders, boards and regulators, the function ensures robust reporting, sound governance and informed decision-making. The UK & EMEA Financial Reporting and Control team sits at the heart of this activity, partnering across Finance to support sustainable growth and help enable our clients to be better investors.
About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join the UK & EMEA Financial Reporting and Control team in Edinburgh. As Entity Financial Controller, you will take responsibility for the financial management of a portfolio of Aberdeen legal entities, overseeing reporting, control, statutory and regulatory deliverables while challenging and interpreting outputs from Finance Operations. The role offers exposure to senior stakeholders including entity boards and executive leadership, providing a strong platform for career development and professional growth. Through a combination of technical accounting, financial control and commercial insight, you will help drive high-quality decision making and governance across the Group.
Key Responsibilities
Own and review legal entity financial reporting, providing clear insights and presenting board packs to senior stakeholders.
Maintain robust legal entity control through oversight of monthly P&L, balance sheet substantiation and IFRS reporting.
Oversee statutory accounts, regulatory reporting and audit activity, ensuring high-quality delivery from internal and outsourced providers.
Support technical accounting adjustments, local GAAP reporting requirements and statutory disclosures.
Partner with planning and performance teams to support legal entity forecasting, budgeting and financial decision-making.
Represent Finance in governance forums and, where appropriate, act as a finance representative on legal entity boards.
About the Candidate
Qualified Accountant - CA, ACCA or equivalent (essential)
Experience within financial control, accounting, audit or commercial finance in financial services or investment management (essential)
Strong understanding of IFRS, GAAP and financial reporting requirements (essential)
Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills (essential)
Advanced Excel skills and experience using finance systems such as Oracle (essential)
German language skills (highly desirable)
Knowledge of German GAAP (highly desirable)
Audit experience (desirable)
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, free access to the interactive investor platform, and a range of flexible benefits - including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here.
Our business
Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here.
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.
