Senior Oracle Analyst - ERP

Aberdeen Standard Investments; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investment firm in Edinburgh is seeking a Senior Analyst to enhance financial planning and reporting using Oracle ERP solutions. The ideal candidate will possess deep Oracle ERP expertise and proficiency in SQL. This role involves collaborating with stakeholders, driving system improvements, and managing project activities in a blended working environment with attractive benefits.

Benefits

40 days’ annual leave

16% employer pension contribution

Private healthcare

Discretionary performance-based bonus

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Oracle ERP with hands-on experience.
• Ability to understand and map end-to-end finance processes.
• Experience engaging with stakeholders and vendors.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of Oracle ERP solutions.
• Translate business requirements into functional specifications.
• Manage testing activities and provide end-user training.

Skills

Strong knowledge of Oracle ERP modules

Proficient in SQL

Skilled in diagnosing complex issues

Experience leading cross-functional projects

Tools

Oracle Reporting Tools

Oracle Integration Cloud

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

Aberdeen’s Finance Squad sits within the Corporate Technology Office, this is responsible for managing Aberdeen's core Finance systems with Oracle being its Strategic tool of choice. Aberdeen is live with Oracle Financials (GL, AP, AR, FA) & Oracle ERP Cloud solutions, including Planning and Enterprise Data Management (EDM). We have an exciting roadmap ahead of us to further enhance our systems architecture over the next 3 years and embed and enhance ways or working.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Analyst with deep expertise in Oracle ERP to join our enterprise systems team. This role will be instrumental in supporting and enhancing our financial planning, forecasting, and reporting capabilities through Oracle ERP Cloud solutions. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in Oracle ERP modules and a passion for driving performance through data and analytics.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of Oracle ERP solutions across Finance, Procurement, and Supply Chain modules.

• Translate business requirements into functional specifications through stakeholder collaboration.

• Perform gap analyses and recommend system enhancements or process improvements.

• Support ERP upgrades, patches, and integrations with other enterprise systems.

• Manage testing activities and provide end-user training and documentation.

• Act as a bridge between business and technical teams to ensure successful ERP implementation.

About the candidate

• Strong knowledge of Oracle ERP modules (Financials, Procurement, SCM), including both on-premise and Cloud applications.

• Ability to understand and map end-to-end finance, procurement, and supply chain processes to system solutions.

• Proficient in SQL, Oracle reporting tools (BI Publisher, OTBI), data migration (FBDI, ADFdi), and integration platforms like Oracle Integration Cloud.

• Skilled in diagnosing complex issues, performing root cause analysis, and delivering data-driven solutions.

• Experience leading cross-functional projects and engaging with stakeholders, vendors, and Oracle support.

• Strong documentation and training capabilities, with experience mentoring junior team members.

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.

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.

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.

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.