Adviser Business Partner

Overview

Aberdeen aims to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group. We focus 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.

Our Business Partnering team provides commercial financial support and challenge to senior customers within the business. The consultant role forms part of this team, providing financial support and analysis to facilitate commercial and strategic decision making. The role operates as a member of the team and includes active participation in senior stakeholder meetings.

The incumbent will work closely with colleagues and key business stakeholders to support commercial and strategic decision making, helping to ensure commercial objectives are met. Responsibilities include delivering a consistent, high-quality approach to producing insight and information. The role partners with the Adviser business and the broader Finance function.

Key responsibilities:

• Preparing financial modelling and analysis to support key commercial and strategic decision making for a range of initiatives, including market analysis, performance tracking, business intelligence, planning and forecasting.
• Providing and evaluating non-routine analysis of financial performance, trends and variance analysis, with supporting improvement recommendations.
• Producing financial analysis to support leadership reviews.
• Supporting the automation of routine analysis by facilitating the incorporation of procedures within Financial Operations and Reporting.
• Working closely with the accounting team to ensure new business initiatives are supported by appropriate technical opinions and accurate general ledger representation.
• Embracing new technologies to increase productivity by developing automated reporting and analysis tools.
• Demonstrating robust modelling with data drawn from robust sources and with appropriate control and validation steps.

• Ability to interpret data with market perspective and communicate effectively.
• Ability to provide guidance and business support that balances business needs and corporate compliance.
• Excellent analytical ability and attention to detail.
• Strong written and verbal communication tailored to the audience.
• Strong IT skills, including constructing and interpreting financial models in Excel.
• Awareness of digital technologies; credibility with stakeholders through relationships, communication, influence and confidence.
• Determined, assertive, and able to engage in the detail to understand complex commercial drivers.
• Accountability for quality and delivery; good time management and ability to prioritise under strict reporting deadlines.
• Self-starter with the ability to work with minimal supervision.

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.

We are committed to an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued. We define diversity broadly and include education, background, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief, ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcome inquiries 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.

Our benefits include 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. We support a blended working approach – combining face-to-face collaboration with the flexibility of working from home to suit roles and teams.

Details about the application process are available in the candidate questionnaire if applicable.