Job Description

At abrdn, our purpose is to enable our clients to be better investors.

Clients worldwide trust us to find future-fit investment opportunities to deliver the outcomes they want. Our technology and insight help empower them to make better decisions, while the powerful partnerships we build help to enhance the expertise that we offer. And by enabling clients to invest responsibly, it helps us to build a better world.

About the Department

The Operational Risk Oversight (Central Functions) Team sits within the Enterprise Risk department, a key part of abrdn’s wider Risk & Compliance division. Enterprise Risk covers various areas, including risk assessment, data analytics, reporting, conduct, data privacy, compliance oversight, and business partnering for abrdn’s central functions. This team plays a pivotal role in supporting abrdn’s client-led growth strategy across its Investments, Adviser, and Personal businesses.

About the Role

This role supports the risk oversight, challenge, and advice for abrdn’s central functions, including Information Technology, Information Security, and Third Party Risk Management. The role holder will work as a business partner, focusing on operational risk management, risk identification and controls, and embedding abrdn’s Enterprise Risk Management Framework.

The role also involves coordinating major change initiatives, operational resilience, and third-party oversight within abrdn’s first line of defence (1LoD).

Key Responsibilities

• Provide oversight, challenge, and advice to ensure the Enterprise Risk Management Framework is effectively embedded within Technology and Cyber.

• Develop and maintain relationships with business and functional partners, offering improved support and guidance on operational risk framework tools and processes.

• Ensure that technology and cyber risks are appropriately mitigated and that corrective actions are implemented and tracked to completion.

• Assist with the production of specialist oversight reports and other outputs from the team.

• Support the production of management information and collaborate with colleagues to create and maintain a strong control environment for business areas.

• Assist in the delivery of functional activities within the wider Risk & Compliance function when required.

About the Candidate

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• Strong knowledge of technology, resilience, and/or cyber security.

• Exceptional partner management and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trust and deliver proactive and collaborative solutions.

• A strong sense of intellectual curiosity to uncover insights that strengthen risk management.

• An outcome-focused approach with strong facilitation and collaborative working skills.

• Practical knowledge of operational risk management framework components such as risk identification, risk event management, and scenario development.

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 abrdn 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.