Job Description

Job Title: Accounting & Finance Internship Programme

Location: Edinburgh

Role Type: Full-time Internship

Period: June - August 2025 (10 weeks)

Closing date: Friday 18th October (We reserve the right to close earlier due to volume of applications)

Explore Endless Opportunities with abrdn's Accounting Internship Programme!

About abrdn

At abrdn, we empower our clients to become better investors. With a global presence, we provide innovative investment solutions that drive positive outcomes. Our commitment to responsible investing helps us contribute to building a better world.

Why Choose Our Internship Programme?

Embark on a unique, challenging, and rewarding journey with abrdn. Our summer internship offers you the chance to work within our Finance Function. Here, you’ll engage in real projects, collaborate with talented professionals, and develop skills that will enhance your career.

What You'll Do

The Finance function, led by the Chief Financial Officer, is structured around specialist centralised teams and business-focused commercial teams. The Finance function plays an important role in the monitoring and reporting of business performance and the development and delivery of the Groups strategic objectives.  You will be based with the same team throughout the internship, while remaining close and connected with the wider Finance team, regardless of which team you join you will gain a depth of experience; getting to know the areas where you could be placed during the graduate programme:

• Reporting
• Tax
• Internal Audit
• Business planning and partnering

Throughout the programme, you can access e-learning courses, a structured development plan, and networking opportunities with senior leaders.

What We Look For

We are looking for students in their penultimate year from diverse academic backgrounds with an interest in finance. Ideal candidates will have excellent analytical skills, be client-focused, collaborative and be strategic thinkers with a futurist mindset.  Being able to demonstrate inclusive and empowering leadership is also important.

Our Graduate Programme

Upon completing your internship, you’ll be considered for our 36-month rotational graduate programme, starting in September 2026. This offers a supportive environment to gain skills, experience, and industry qualifications like the ICAS CA qualification. Our graduate programme focuses on developing our talent to give the best possible start to their career and support aspirations to be the future leaders of abrdn. Our development curriculum focuses on 3 key learning mindsets- Client, Leadership & Strategic. Through engaging content, group coaching and learning experiences these mindsets will develop your capability and equip you with the skills and knowledge to set you up for success in your career.  

Our Commitment to Inclusion

abrdn is dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is valued. As a Disability Confident Committed Level One employer, we welcome applications from all backgrounds and provide support throughout the recruitment process.

Contact us at [email protected] for any accommodations needed.

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. You will enjoy competitive rewards, including 40 days of annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, private healthcare, and flexible benefits such as gym discounts and more. You can read more about our benefits here.

Apply Today

Join us in building a future where everyone can thrive.

For more information visit our careers site: https://www.abrdn.com/en-gb/corporate/careers

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.