Finance Manager

Job Description

Who we are

Aberdeen Investments is part of Aberdeen Group plc, one of the UK's leading Wealth & Investments groups.

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 repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand and are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.

As a global business, Aberdeen consists of three divisions: Investments, Adviser, and interactive investor (ii). Each division is dedicated to meeting and adapting to our clients' evolving needs.

In European markets, our dedicated and highly experienced investment team manages our European products, including emerging market income and debt, smaller companies, European credit, ETFs, real estate and sustainable investing propositions.

We have offices in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Our breadth of experience gives us close proximity to the companies we invest in and the markets we operate in.

About the Role

The Finance Manager is a key role within the UK & EMEA financial reporting and control team to support the Head of Finance in Luxembourg in the delivery of local financial results leveraging the output of the wider Finance team (principally, Finance Operations), while providing control, oversight and challenge.

The role offers significant variety and development opportunities across financial control, reporting, budgeting and commercial insight, together with exposure to and stakeholder management at a senior level (including Executive Committee).

The successful candidate will be responsible for the preparation and analytical review of the monthly reporting.

Key Responsibilities

Legal Entity Reporting and Executive committee Level Stakeholder Management

• Preparation and review of commentary on monthly financials, delivering insights to internal and external stakeholders.

• Preparation of monthly management reports and analysis for local management teams.

• Preparation of quarterly board reports and analysis.

Entity Control and Financial Integrity

• Conduct a rigorous review and challenge of monthly legal entity P&L and balance sheet packs, proactively ensuring that trial balance is not only valid, accurate, and complete but also adhere to the highest standards of financial integrity.

Regulatory/Statutory Reporting and Audit

• Support the preparation of the group annual report at year-end, including preparation of certain disclosure packs.

• Responsible for delivery of the annual statutory accounts for the Luxembourg regulated subsidiary entity as well as general partners of alternative products.

• Build relationships with the auditors and ensure improvements to the audit process are implemented.

• Implement accounting systems and processes that are relevant for the local market and consistent with those used by Aberdeen head office.

• Responsible for preparation of prudential regulatory reporting for Luxembourg and liaison with the regulator where required.

Tax/Transfer Pricing

• Review corporate tax and VAT returns and calculations prepared by external and ensure timely completion and submission of all relevant corporate tax and VAT returns.

• Liaise with finance colleagues to ensure transfer pricing entries in Luxembourg have been processed in line with policy.

• Support tax team to implement any changes / improvements to transfer pricing policy through the preparation and review of the profitability analysis.

Identify implications for Luxembourg of changes to transfer pricing policy and identify / escalate areas of risk.

Budgeting and Collaboration

• Lead the legal entity budgeting and business plan process working together with the Performance and Planning team, providing challenge where appropriate.

• Feed into group forecasts with key items for consideration and ensure significant variances highlighted on a timely basis. Influence corrective action from management where appropriate.

• Build strong network amongst peers of finance across EMEA and develop strong working

relationships with group finance teams.

Oversight of finance delegate and sub-delegate

• Monthly KPI Review provided by the delegate.

• Prepare of Executive KPI dashboard.

• Participation in Bi-Annual Due Diligence Reviews

Process Improvement / Ad-hoc Projects

• Identify processes that need strengthened, working with finance colleagues to plan actions and deliver improvements in the running of the finance function.

• Ownership of/involvement in ad-hoc projects as required.

About the Candidate

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• Minimum 7 years audit experience.

• Knowledge and understanding of accounting principles, practices and processes, including financial reporting standards (IFRS or GAAP).

• Maintains high standards under pressure, demonstrating resilience and independence to uphold the credibility of financial and governance work.

• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills including proficiency in PowerPoint.

• Operates with intellectual curiosity and strategic insight. Builds credibility with senior stakeholders and communicates with clarity and conviction to influence outcomes and gain support for ideas.

• Proficiency in financial systems and ERPs (e.g. Oracle).

• Advanced Excel skills, with the ability to handle large datasets.

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: The Company will provide the employee with contributions of 7% of the monthly salary, with 2 years vesting period, Discretionary Bonus, Risk Insurance – Death, Risk Insurance - Disability, Lunch Vouchers, Gym Membership, Teleworking allowance.

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.

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.

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