Anti-Financial Crime Analyst (Adviser Platform)

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.

This role brings that purpose to life by helping Aberdeen Adviser manage financial crime risk well, protect clients and invest in a stronger tomorrow.

About the Department

The Anti-Financial Crime team sits within Risk & Compliance and provides second line oversight, advice and challenge across Aberdeen. For Aberdeen Adviser, the team helps a platform business serving UK financial advisers work within financial crime laws, regulations, policies and standards. By partnering with first line teams, the department protects clients, strengthens controls and helps enable our clients to be better investors.

About the Role

As Anti-Financial Crime Analyst in the Adviser business, you will support the AFC Adviser MLRO with second line advice, oversight and challenge. Based in Edinburgh, this Analyst role works closely with Aberdeen Adviser, first line teams, auditors and professional third parties to support compliance with legal, regulatory and policy requirements. You will contribute to senior management reporting, monitoring and testing, risk assessments and escalation of matters outside policy, standards or risk appetite. It is an opportunity to build specialist AFC expertise, make sound risk-based decisions and invest in your tomorrow.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide AFC advice, guidance and challenge on new products, services, business activity and first line escalations.
• Support second line oversight of AFC systems and controls against relevant laws, regulations and guidance.
• Collate management information for senior management reporting and AFC legal and regulatory obligations.
• Review higher risk escalations, waiver or exception requests, and matters outside policy, standards or risk appetite.
• Execute AFC monitoring and testing, support AFC risk assessments and help track remediation activity.
• Assist with AFC queries from clients, regulators, counterparties, auditors and professional third parties.

About the Candidate

You will bring technical AFC knowledge, clear communication, balanced judgement and a collaborative style:

• Experience providing AFC advice, guidance or oversight within a regulated financial institution. (essential)
• Good knowledge of UK financial crime laws, rules, regulatory guidance and industry practice. (essential)
• Understanding of applying financial crime policies, standards and risk appetite in business activity. (essential)
• Knowledge of UK regulatory requirements, including Joint Money Laundering Steering Group guidance and the Money Laundering Regulations. (highly desirable)
• Strong written, verbal and interpersonal skills with first line teams and senior stakeholders. (highly desirable)
• Relevant ICA Certificate or equivalent qualification. (desirable)
• Experience in an adviser or investment platform business, including platform risks and challenges. (desirable)

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 20 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 an Anti-Financial Crime Analyst 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.