Head of Tax Reporting

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…