Senior Operational Taxes Manager – Edinburgh, London

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 Role

The Finance function, led by the Chief Financial Officer, is structured into four specialist teams and three commercially focused business units supporting interactive investor, Adviser, and Investments. The function is further enabled by a dedicated Finance COO Office, ensuring operational excellence and strategic alignment.

The Tax function is one of those specialist teams, led by the Group Tax Director who leads all tax-related matters across the group, operating as a global specialist function to ensure compliance, efficiency, and strategic tax planning.

The Tax function is located predominantly in Edinburgh and London. 

The function comprises teams covering Tax Reporting, Advisory and International, Public Markets Tax, Private Markets Tax and Indirect and Operational Taxes.  This role sits within the Indirect and Operational Taxes team reporting to the Head of Indirect and Operational Taxes

Indirect and Operational Taxes is a highly cross‑functional area that works closely with both client‑facing teams and a wide range of non‑finance functions across Aberdeen’s three business divisions Investments, Adviser and ii.  There are three SMEs in this team which you would be managing.
 

Key Responsibilities:
 

• Day-to-day management of three operational tax SMEs

• Oversight of group-wide AEOI reporting obligations (FATCA/CRS).
• Oversight of the team preparing UK ISA, CT61, Pensions reporting and Other Interest returns and advising business on changes to those regimes
• US tax obligations regarding US WHT as a QI
• Lead tax advisor on ad-hoc projects and implementation of business initiatives such as the operational tax implications of launching new financial products
• Operational tax Governance. The role will involve liaising with all the business stakeholders to ensure they understand their involvement with respect to operational taxes and documenting controls as required.
• Oversight from a tax perspective of the Aberdeen Groups obligations under Corporate Criminal Offence.
• Monitoring regulatory change in Operational Taxes and participation in relevant industry forums.

About the Candidate:

• ACA/CTA qualified or equivalent (Qualification by experience will be considered)
• Relevant experience in financial services tax
• Strong analytical skills – with a natural curiosity and confidence to proactively question and dig deeper if information does not make sense
• Excellent communication style and a collaborative mindset to aid establishing and maintaining effective working relationships across the business
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel
• Strong data management skills with an attention to detail
• Adaptable and enjoys a dynamic, rapidly changing working environment
• Commercial Mindset – Demonstrates an understanding of how the organisation creates value and uses this insight to make decisions that support long‑term performance. This includes ensures that work, projects, and advice directly support organisational strategy and contribute to sustainable growth.
• Meaningful Impact – Delivering work that positively influences people, performance, and the wider organisation by focusing on outcomes. This includes Building trusted relationships with stakeholders, enabling the ability to challenge constructively and steer conversations toward impactful solutions.

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.

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.