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.
Internal Audit at Aberdeen
Internal Audit is a key function in Aberdeen, supporting the firm in achieving its objectives, whilst effectively helping them to manage their risks. Based primarily in Edinburgh, but with colleagues in London, Singapore, and Frankfurt, we have a global remit and provide assurance to the Board, Audit Committees, and Executive.
We are currently looking for a talented and experienced IT Audit Manager to join our team. We are highly ambitious function who seek to innovate. We will help you grow by recognising and leveraging your strengths and potential, supporting your personal development. In return, we will ask you for your energy, enthusiasm and the drive to deliver the results we aim to achieve.
The Role – IT Audit Manager
You will have a broad and deep understanding of key technology risks facing large financial services firms. You’ll bring experience of planning and executing a risk-based portfolio of technology audits, and of delivering high quality results both yourself and through others. Lastly, as well as building strong relationships with your audit colleagues, you’ll have a track record of developing credible and value-add senior stakeholder relationships.
Key Responsibilities
- The role is responsible for delivering high‑quality audit planning and risk assessment activities, producing robust and insightful assessments across the audit universe and reviewing the work of others to ensure consistency and depth.
- It involves proposing and challenging audit coverage based on identified risks, coordinating the team’s planning cycle, and managing key stakeholder relationships to ensure alignment with business priorities.
- The role also represents the audit function in governance forums, sharing insights and helping shape the understanding of emerging and strategic risks.
- In audit delivery, the role oversees end‑to‑end execution of audits in line with agile methodology and quality standards, ensuring clear root‑cause analysis and proportionate, sustainable recommendations.
- It produces impactful reports for senior stakeholders, manages multiple concurrent audits, and ensures rigorous validation of issue closure.
- Alongside this, the role contributes to team leadership by coaching colleagues, fostering a high‑performance and innovative culture, and championing digital solutions to enhance ways of working, build capability, and support continual improvement across the audit function.
About the Candidate
The ideal candidate will possess the following:
Essential
- Have broad IT experience and a sound technical understanding of IT risks and hot topics.
- Be educated to degree level or demonstrate strong relevant industry experience.
- Hold a relevant professional qualification (e.g. CISA, CISM, CISSP).
- Have 2+ years experience as an IT Audit Manager with experience in line with the key responsibilities noted above.
- Have delivered end-to-end assurance reviews covering risks associated with cyber security, technology resilience, cloud solutions, technology regulations, and other related disciplines.
- Have an understanding of key technology regulations affecting financial services firms operating in the UK, EMEA, and further afield, such as Operational Resilience, DORA, and GDPR.
Desirable
- Have a curiosity for emerging technologies and trends and the opportunities these provide.
- Have experience in using AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot to enhance audit efficiency and quality.
- Have worked directly in an IT function in a technical or analyst role.
- Have held roles in a second line technology risk assurance function, providing support and challenge to first line colleagues across a range of different reviews.
- Knowledge and auditing experience with IT and security related frameworks (such as COBIT, ITIL, ISO27001, NIST).
- Knowledge and experience of auditing Identity and Access Management, including solutions such as Active Directory and EntraID.
- Knowledge and experience of auditing third party IT partners and providers.
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.
