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City of Edinburgh, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom
Hybrid
Job Description
About Aberdeen
Aberdeen Group 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 part of our Internal Audit function, this role offers the opportunity to shape technology assurance across the Group while investing in your tomorrow through meaningful leadership, development and impact.
About the Department
Internal Audit plays a critical role in helping Aberdeen achieve its strategic objectives while managing risk effectively. Working across Aberdeen Investments, Aberdeen Adviser, interactive investor and central functions, the team provides independent, risk-based assurance that supports strong governance and decision-making. The function is collaborative, forward-thinking and increasingly focused on data, technology and innovation to help enable our clients to be better investors.
About the Role
As IT Senior Audit Manager, you will be a senior leader within Internal Audit, reporting into the technology audit leadership team and acting as a key partner to senior stakeholders across the business. You will lead complex technology audits, oversee technology risk assessments and audit planning, manage integrated audit engagements and help shape the future direction of technology assurance across Aberdeen. This is an opportunity to influence decision-making at the highest levels, coach and develop talented audit professionals, and provide assurance across a diverse and evolving technology landscape. The role offers significant exposure to senior executives and major strategic initiatives, helping you invest in your tomorrow while delivering meaningful impact.
Key Responsibilities
About the Candidate
Desirable: Experience in technology risk functions, knowledge of COBIT, ITIL, ISO 27001 or NIST frameworks, exposure to cyber security, resilience, cloud, data, AI and third-party technology assurance, and experience using data analytics or AI-enabled audit tools.
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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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