Director of UK and EMEA Financial Reporting and Control

Aberdeen; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a dynamic leader for its Financial Reporting and Control team. This senior role involves overseeing financial stewardship and entity reporting while inspiring a team of experienced controllers. You will ensure compliance with IFRS standards and drive business insights beyond numbers. The company values inclusivity and offers a blended working approach, allowing for flexibility and collaboration. With a strong focus on personal development, this role is ideal for someone passionate about making a positive impact in financial services.

Benefits

40 days annual leave

16% employer pension contribution

Discretionary performance-based bonus

Private healthcare

Gym discounts

Season ticket loans

Employee discount portal

Qualifications

• Significant experience in financial control or commercial finance leadership.
• Qualified Accountant with audit background desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 20 financial controllers across UK and EMEA.
• Oversee production of legal entity financials and board packs.

Skills

Financial Control Leadership

IFRS Knowledge

Team Leadership

Financial Reporting

Communication Skills

Advanced Excel Skills

Education

Qualified Accountant (CA/ACCA)

Tools

Oracle ERP

Job description

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 Department

This position sits within Group Financial Control who are responsible for a combination of business performance management across the Aberdeen Group, internal and external reporting activity (group, statutory, regulatory and non-financial including sustainability), and management of the relationship with external auditors and the Audit Committee. The area consists of a number of teams including:

• Performance and Planning – responsible for all performance and planning activities centrally for the group, including coordination of planning, forecasting, quarterly business reviews and cost management across central functions.
• Group Reporting and Control – responsible for all aspect of Group external reporting, consolidation and technical accounting matters.
• Regional and Entity Control & Reporting teams – responsible for entity level and regional financial control and reporting, including discharging of responsibilities under the Senior Managers and Certification Regime, as well as decision support to regional CEOs.
  
  

About The Role

This is a senior and key role within Aberdeen Finance, reporting directly to the Group Financial Controller. The role holder will lead the UK and EMEA Financial Reporting and Control team, comprising around 20 experienced controllers. They will ensure robust financial stewardship, entity reporting, and control, while driving collective problem-solving and business insight beyond the numbers.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of approximately 20 experienced financial controllers across the UK and EMEA regions. Inspire and motivate the team to achieve their best, supporting personal and technical development.
• Oversee the production of legal entity financials and board packs, ensuring valuable insights for decision-making and control.
• Ensure IFRS trial balances are valid, accurate, and complete. Oversee the balance sheet attestation process and implement robust financial controls.
• Supervise statutory accounts, regulatory reporting, and local statistical reports. Coordinate legal entity audits.
• Oversee technical adjustments for complex valuations, impairments, write-offs, and exceptional transactions.
• Oversee the legal entity planning process, working with Performance and Planning teams.
• Act as a financial control subject matter expert for projects and strategic initiatives.
  
  

About The Candidate

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• Significant experience in a similar financial control or commercial finance leadership role within investment management or financial services.
• Qualified Accountant (CA/ACCA) with audit background desirable.
• Strong track record of leading and motivating teams.
• Expertise in relevant accounting principles, practices, and processes, including IFRS or GAAP.
• Proficiency in financial systems and ERPs (e.g., Oracle) and advanced Excel skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Self-driven, ambitious, and willing to challenge the status quo.
  
  

We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and are happy to provide adjustments to the recruitment process to support candidates.

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.

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.