General Ledger Analyst

Job Description

About Aberdeen 

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, Aberdeen Adviser, and interactive investor. 

As a Finance Operations GL Analyst, you will help bring “Invest in your tomorrow” to life by protecting the quality, accuracy and integrity of the financial information that supports our clients and our business. 

About the Department 

Finance Operations is a core part of Aberdeen’s Finance function, delivering services across Record to Report, Billing, Banking, Accounts Payable and Supplier Relationship Management. Within Group Financial Control, the team provides accurate financial outputs, robust controls and timely reporting, working with colleagues in Edinburgh and Chennai.

Record to Report underpins reliable financial reporting, regulatory compliance and informed decision-making, helping enable our clients to be better investors. The team has a strong control discipline and a focus on continuous improvement, automation and transformation. 

About the Role 

This Finance Operations GL Analyst role is a key opportunity within Record to Report in Edinburgh. You will act as a gatekeeper of the general ledger, delivering journals, reconciliations, month-end close and balance sheet substantiation while ensuring financial data is accurate, complete and audit ready. You will use technical judgement to understand, challenge and explain financial movements across areas such as intercompany, transfer pricing, revenue recognition, cost control and fixed assets. The role offers variety, ownership and exposure to process improvement, automation and AI-enabled finance solutions, helping you invest in your tomorrow.

Key Responsibilities 

• Act as a gatekeeper of the general ledger, ensuring accuracy, completeness and integrity of financial data. 
• Deliver core Record to Report activity, including journals, reconciliations, month-end close and balance sheet substantiation. 
• Challenge inputs and outputs, validate data at source and ensure postings are supported, controlled and audit ready. 
• Support key accounting activity across intercompany, transfer pricing, revenue recognition, cost control and fixed assets. 
• Analyse financial movements and provide clear commentary that helps stakeholders understand the story behind the numbers. 
• Contribute to process improvement and transformation, including opportunities to simplify, standardise, automate and use AI within R2R. 

About the Candidate 

Essential requirements 

• Strong experience in Record to Report or General Ledger accounting, including month-end close. 
• Experience across one or more core accounting areas such as intercompany, transfer pricing, revenue recognition, cost control, balance sheet substantiation or fixed assets, with transfer pricing and cost control highly valued. 
• Experience using Oracle, or a similar ERP ledger, within a finance function. 
• Qualified or part-qualified accountant, such as CA, CIMA, ACCA, ACA or an equivalent recognised body. 
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to maintain accuracy, control and audit readiness in a GL environment. 
• Clear verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain financial information to finance and non-finance stakeholders. 

Preferred and desirable experience 

• Preferred: demonstrated ability to understand, challenge and explain financial data and movements. 
• Preferred: proven track record in maintaining data integrity and financial control within a General Ledger environment. 
• Desirable: experience supporting or delivering process improvement initiatives. 
• Desirable: curiosity about automation, AI-enabled finance solutions and opportunities to improve Record to Report processes. 

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. 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.

Ready to invest in your tomorrow as a Finance Operations GL Lead Controller in Edinburgh? Apply now and join Aberdeen in enabling our clients to be better investors.

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.