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.

Your team

The Finance function, led by the Chief Financial Officer, is structured into four specialist teams and three commercially focused business units supporting interactive investor, Adviser, and Investments. The function is further enabled by a dedicated Finance COO Office, ensuring operational excellence and strategic alignment.

The Tax function is one of those specialist teams, led by the Tax Director who leads all tax-related matters across the group, operating as a global specialist function to ensure compliance, efficiency, and strategic tax planning.

The Tax function is located predominantly in Edinburgh and London.  The function comprises teams covering Tax Reporting, Advisory and International, Public Markets Tax, Private Markets Tax and Indirect and Operational Taxes.  This role sits within the Tax Reporting team reporting to the Tax Director.

Indirect and Operational Taxes is a highly cross‑functional area that works closely with both client‑facing teams and a wide range of non‑finance functions across Aberdeen’s three business divisions Investments, Adviser and ii.  There are three SMEs in this team which you would be managing.

Your role in the Team's Success

You will be responsible for leading the provision of a comprehensive corporate tax reporting and compliance service to support the UK and international business.

This is a key role in both the Tax and broader Finance function ensuring robust tax governance, accurate reporting and compliance whilst also driving process evolution and adaptation.  The role will be supported by a team and will also play a key part in shaping the strategic direction of the Tax function more widely, overseeing risk management practices, contributing to leadership development and role modelling the organisation’s values and behaviours.

The role holder will be required to develop a good understanding of how the business operates and work with a wide range of other business areas to ensure that tax is effectively managed across the organisation.  The role will also require the individual to develop strong working relationships with advisors and other external suppliers.

The successful candidate will have the autonomy to refine and enhance existing processes and to design new ones that keep pace with both our business and evolving global tax legislation.

The key responsibilities and outcomes for this role are as follows:

• Lead the reporting and forecasting of taxes across Aberdeen
• Lead the oversight of tax compliance activities for the Aberdeen corporate entities and support the relationship with HMRC and other tax authorities
• Oversight of group-level filing requirements including Pillar 2, CBCR and CIR

• Ensure the effective application and development of the tax risk and controls framework for the business together with supporting governance and reporting requirements
• Oversight of business management activities for the tax function
• Supervision and development of team members providing applicable feedback, coaching and guidance
• Work closely with other senior tax colleagues to ensure consistency of approach, sharing of knowledge and effective risk coverage for the business globally
• Develop thorough understanding of Aberdeen business operations to ensure that all relevant risks and requirements are addressed
• Understand best practice and ensure industry representation for Aberdeen as appropriate with external stakeholders including applicable industry bodies
• In conjunction with other senior members of the tax team, review and develop the tax strategy for the business

What You'll Need for This Role

• ACA/CTA qualified or equivalent at senior manager or director level
• Strong UK corporate tax background with exposure to international issues preferred
• Experience in financial services or a large corporate group an advantage
• Experience of finance transformation projects or development of tax systems an advantage.
• Strong analytical skills – with a natural curiosity and confidence to proactively question and dig deeper if information does not make sense
• Excellent communication style and a collaborative mindset to aid establishing and maintaining effective working relationships across stakeholders
• Strong data management skills with an attention to detail
• Adaptable and enjoys a dynamic, rapidly changing working environment
• Commercial Mindset – Demonstrates an understanding of how the organisation creates value and uses this insight to make decisions that support long‑term performance. This includes ensures that work, projects, and advice directly support organisational strategy and contribute to sustainable growth.
• Meaningful Impact – Delivering work that positively influences people, performance, and the wider organisation by focusing on outcomes. This includes building trusted relationships with stakeholders, enabling the ability to challenge constructively and steer conversations toward impactful solutions.
• Experience with working with third parties to drive transformation change and experience with data will be advantageous

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.

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.