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City of Edinburgh, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom
Onsite
Job Description
At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group.
Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent.
Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society.
We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.
Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs:
interactive investor, the UK’s second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.
Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.
About the department
Aberdeen’s Finance Squad sits within the Corporate Technology Office, this is responsible for managing Aberdeen's core Finance systems with Oracle being its Strategic tool of choice. Aberdeen is live with Oracle Financials (GL, AP, AR, FA) & Oracle ERP Cloud solutions, including Planning, Financial Consolidation & Close (FCCS), and Enterprise Data Management (EDM). We have an exciting roadmap ahead of us to further enhance our systems architecture over the next 3 years and embed and enhance ways or working.
About the role
We are looking for a Senior Techno-Functional Analyst with deep expertise in Oracle ERP to join our enterprise systems team. This role will be instrumental in supporting and enhancing our financial planning, forecasting, and reporting capabilities through Oracle ERP Cloud solutions. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in Oracle ERP modules and a passion for driving performance through data and analytics.
Key Responsibilities
Lead the design and delivery of Oracle ERP solutions across Finance, Procurement, and Supply Chain modules.
Translate business requirements into functional specifications through stakeholder collaboration.
Perform gap analyses and recommend system enhancements or process improvements.
Support ERP upgrades, patches, and integrations with other enterprise systems.
Manage testing activities and provide end-user training and documentation.
Act as a bridge between business and technical teams to ensure successful ERP implementation.
About the candidate
Strong knowledge of Oracle ERP modules (Financials- namely GL, AP, AR, CM, Procurement, SCM), including both on-premise and Cloud applications.
Ability to understand and map end-to-end finance, procurement, and supply chain processes to system solutions.
Proficient in SQL, Oracle reporting tools (BI Publisher, OTBI), data migration (FBDI, ADFdi), and integration platforms like Oracle Integration Cloud.
Skilled in diagnosing complex issues, performing root cause analysis, and delivering data-driven solutions.
Experience leading cross-functional projects and engaging with stakeholders, vendors, and Oracle support.
Strong documentation and training capabilities, with experience mentoring junior team members.
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 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.