ExecutiveFull TimeENEurope
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:
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:
What You'll Need for This Role
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.
