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 Role

The Risk management team ensures the activity of abrdn Investments Luxembourg S.A. (“ASIL”) are conducted such that there is full risk management coverage of the Luxembourg UCITS funds and Fixed Income, Multi Assets and Equity AIFs managed by ASIL domiciled in other European countries, which are subject to the risk management requirements of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive.

The Risk Analyst will form part of the Risk Management team and will assist the Risk Manager to ensure that ASIL has a fully functioning risk management framework and is compliant with all risk management principles, policies and rules and other applicable risk

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist the risk Manager on ensuring that the Management Company’s Risk Management Process (“RMP”) addresses all risks to which the funds are exposed and that the document is maintained and up to date.
• Assist the risk Manager on defining the risk profile of each UCITS/AIF, which takes into account all risks that may be material to the UCITS/AIF, and maintaining a system of internal limits consistent with this risk profile.
• Responsible for the analysis of the fund’s global exposures and monthly investment risk reporting, performing commonality checks, limit-based checks for the funds and investigation of any issues directly in our risk management systems (RiskMetrics) or though inquires to the Investment Risk team in the UK;
• Oversight of the back-testing reports and any follow up on discrepancies or issues that may arise.
• Oversight of the stress test reports and any follow up on discrepancies or issues that may arise.
• Oversight of sustainability risk indicators and the adherence of the funds to those
• Working with the Investment Risk team in the UK on development and evolution of appropriate stress test scenario for the funds.
• Working with the Investment Risk tram in the UK to enhance/ implement new regulatory requirements in our risk management frameworks.
• Assisting the Risk Manager on the development of new Investment Risk reporting for the funds and also development of risk reporting to the Board of Directors of the Management Company and the Boards of the funds.
• Assisting the Risk Manager on the production of regulatory reporting in relation to the UCITS/AIFs managed by ASIL.
• Acting as a helpdesk for both internal and client related queries relating to Investment Risk on the Luxembourg funds, responding to risk-related RFPs and assistance on due diligence reviews.

About the Candidate:

• Good level of experience in risk management
• GARP Financial Risk Manager (FRM) or equivalent (e.g. CFA) and coding knowledge (VBA, Python, etc) would be an additional benefit
• Fluent in English
• University degree in mathematics, risk management, finance or equivalent preferred

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: 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.