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Job Description

Aberdeen plc is one of Europe’s largest investment companies, and we are built on a long-standing culture of caring about the future and making a positive impact. Together we invest for a better future. We do it to make a difference to the lives of our clients and customers, our employees, society, and our shareholders. Our business is structured around three distinct areas focused on our clients' changing needs.

• Aberdeen Investments – a leading investment management business looking after £368bn of assets for Institutional, Wholesale and Insurance clients

• Aberdeen Adviser – one of the UK’s largest providers of platform services to financial advisers with £75bn in assets across our Wrap and Elevate platforms

• interactive investor – the UK’s most trusted investment platform for individual investors with 430,000 customers who have invested almost £75bn with us

Our strategy is to build a vibrant and value-creating purpose-led organisation, with the current and future needs of our stakeholders at the heart of all we do.

About the role:

The role of Global Share Plans Senior Manager is accountable for leading the implementation of the Shares & Deferred Awards agenda across the organisation. The role is responsible for the operational management and delivery of all employee share plans, global discretionary share plans and the deferred awards agenda for Aberdeen.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supporting the Head of Reward in ensuring that all share awards including Deferred and Discretionary Awards granted to employees meet legal and regulatory requirements.

• Managing the relationship with plan administrators and other key suppliers to ensure effective operation of our global share plans (including performance tracking, budget spend analysis and planning and delivery against share plans goals).

• Working in collaboration with key internal stakeholders including Finance, Treasury, Payrolls, Employment Tax, Legal, the wider HR and Company Secretariat to ensure that internal requirements are defined and delivered effectively.

• Management of key project activities and business as usual deliverables (incl grants and vesting of awards, year- end reporting, adhoc data requests etc.)

• Leading and developing the share plans team to deliver team and wider Reward outcomes.

• Ensuring strong processes and governance is in place to underpin the effective and compliant delivery of shares and deferred awards whilst maximising continuous improvement opportunities.

• Identification of opportunities to improve and enhance our share plans offering.

• Benchmarking and analysis of market best practice conducted to ensure that the organisation remains competitive and regulatory compliant.

• Working with Global Mobility Team to ensure globally mobile employees’ equity is managed appropriately.

About the candidate:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with an ability to influence at all levels within the organisation and with third parties.

• Good working knowledge of all employee schemes, Deferred Awards, Long-Term Incentive Awards and other performance based and/or retention schemes from both a technical (tax and legal) and an operational implementation perspective

• Experience in the delivery of awards on a global basis e.g., nil-cost options, conditional awards, phantom awards etc.

• Up to date regulatory knowledge in relation to Shares & Deferred Awards in multiple jurisdictions.

• Strong project management/co-ordination experience with a proven track record of delivery

• Strong team/operational management experience

• A results orientated approach with the ability to plan and manage multiple priorities effectively

• Strong stakeholder management expertise

• Numerical and data analytics and insights experience

• Benchmarking experience

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 benefitshere.

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 dohere.

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.