Finance Operations Support Analyst

Finance Operations Support Analyst

Location: Edinburgh (hybrid, 40% in‑office)

Salary: £28,160 – £35,200 per annum, depending on experience

Closing date: 24th July 2026

We’re the UK’s largest investment platform, and we put financial wellbeing at the heart of our organisation. We work with customers, financial advisers and employers to provide pensions, savings and investment solutions. We help people live their best lives and strive to create a diverse organisation that drives equity, inclusion and belonging.

In this role you will provide support to the Finance management team, ensuring that all regulatory, governance, risk and people‑management activities are completed accurately, consistently and on time. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, you will help leadership stay informed by gathering, preparing and presenting relevant data, insights and updates on upcoming initiatives, operational deliverables and business changes.

• Contribute to management meetings by sharing clear, well‑structured information.
• Support the Finance Management team in effective operational management of Finance, promoting consistency, efficiency and effective communication across teams.
• Facilitate operational planning, including critical timetabling, training coordination and readiness for cyclical Finance activity.
• Act as a Finance delegate in selected meetings, ensuring actions, requirements and follow‑ups are coordinated across BAU activities and projects.
• Build and maintain strong working links with IT, Operations and other business areas to ensure Finance operational activities are well coordinated and delivered effectively.
• Coordinate Finance’s SOX and risk actions, ensuring activities are completed, closed on time and progress updates are shared regularly with management.
• Liaise with other internal teams and process owners to ensure the effective operation of Finance systems, escalating risks or issues as needed.

• Experience in a financial administration or support role.
• Proven stakeholder management experience within a large organisation—ideally within financial services.
• Prepare and maintain key MI dashboards used by management to monitor performance, risks and priorities.
• Awareness of financial controls and risk‑management practices and how they apply within teams.
• Familiarity with regulatory and compliance requirements (e.g. CASS, ISA & PRAS).
• Excellent Excel and analysis skills.
• Strong communication skills.
• The ability to work independently and autonomously.

• Enhanced pension scheme: you contribute 3% of your salary, we match with 9%; additional contributions are matched up to a combined 20% (7% from you, 13% from us).
• Discretionary bonus based on personal and company performance.
• 34 days leave per year, including bank holidays, pro‑rated for part‑time.

We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave and a variety of lifestyle benefits, including retail discount vouchers, a cycle‑to‑work scheme, subsidised restaurant vouchers and online GP appointments.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, race, religion/belief, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity. We require confirmation of the right to work in the UK and will conduct credit and criminal record checks, as well as reference checks, before starting.