Financial Reporting & Control Analyst

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 a Financial Reporting & Control Analyst, you will play an important role in supporting strong financial governance and helping us deliver on our purpose while investing in your tomorrow. 

About the Department 

The Finance function sits at the heart of Aberdeen and supports informed decision-making, financial integrity and long-term value creation. Working alongside Financial Controllers, Finance Operations, Tax, Treasury and senior stakeholders, the UK & EMEA Financial Reporting and Control team delivers high-quality reporting, controls and governance across legal entities. The team fosters collaboration, learning and continuous improvement, helping enable our clients to be better investors. 

About the Role 

This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career finance professional to join the UK & EMEA Financial Reporting and Control team in Edinburgh. You will support month-end reporting, financial control activities, statutory and regulatory reporting, audit delivery and legal entity planning. The role offers broad exposure to financial reporting, budgeting and commercial insight, while providing the opportunity to learn from experienced Financial Controllers. With a blended working approach and a supportive environment, this role is ideal for someone looking to build technical expertise, analytical capability and stakeholder management skills while investing in their tomorrow.

Key Responsibilities 

• Support monthly legal entity financial analysis, including statutory and regulatory reporting, P&L and balance sheet commentary and management information. 
• Prepare balance sheet reviews, reconciliations and supporting analysis to maintain strong financial control and data integrity. 
• Assist with statutory accounts, regulatory returns and audit deliverables, working with internal teams, outsourced providers and auditors. 
• Support technical accounting, local GAAP analysis, tax balances and entity-specific disclosures. 
• Contribute to forecasting, budgeting and financial planning processes, explaining key movements and trends. 
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, reporting efficiency, documentation and use of financial data. 

About the Candidate 

• Part-qualified accountant studying towards a recognised accounting qualification. (essential)
• Understanding of accounting principles, financial statements and month-end reporting processes. (essential)
• Experience in financial analysis or finance operations. (essential)
• Ability to analyse financial information and present clear, concise commentary. (essential)
• Comfortable working with financial systems and data; Oracle or similar ERP exposure is advantageous. (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. 

We want you to be the real you throughout our recruitment process. Sharing your diversity information helps us understand the reach and impact of our hiring practices and builds a workplace where all people can thrive and belong. This information is kept separate from your application and is not visible to recruiters, hiring managers, or assessors at any stage.

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. 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.

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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.

If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.