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 department
The KYA Governance Team plays a pivotal role in ensuring we maintain a robust Know Your Asset (KYA) framework and meet our regulatory obligations across the Asset business.
About the role
Career Level 4
We are recruiting a KYA Governance Oversight Manager (Career Level 4) to support the Head of KYA Governance and the wider Governance Team in strengthening and embedding KYA oversight across the business.
This is a key role in ensuring our outsourced KYA activity (delivered by Grant Thornton) meets Aberdeen standards, TPRO requirements and regulatory expectations. Your work will directly enhance the quality, consistency, and transparency of governance across the KYA lifecycle, including third‑party assurance, MI oversight, and structured governance forums. Responsibilities reflect the oversight components documented in our outsourcing governance materials.
Key responsibilities:
Governance & Oversight Support
Support the Head of KYA Governance in maintaining and developing the KYA governance framework across the Asset business.
Contribute to the preparation, operation, and documentation of governance forums (Executive Oversight, Joint Service Reviews and Operational Oversight).
Assist the team with reviewing, interpreting and challenging MI, KPIs and SLA performance from the third‑party provider, ensuring effective escalation and follow‑through.
Third‑Party Provider Testing & Assurance
Support the Head of KYA Governance in performing testing and assurance over Grant Thornton’s outsourced KYA activities — including sample checking, thematic reviews, and quality assurance.
Review accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of KYA outputs against TPRO Standards, DD Minimum Standards, and contractual controls.
Identify risks, service‑delivery failures, or control gaps and support the tracking of remediation plans through governance forums.
Risk, Controls & Policy Alignment
Assist in ensuring the outsourced service aligns with Aberdeen’s risk framework, including documentation, oversight controls, and ongoing monitoring expectations.
Review processes and controls to ensure compliance with TPRM/TPRO requirements — particularly those referencing asset‑level due diligence, record‑keeping and review cycles.
Support readiness for internal audit, AFC MTO testing and regulatory review by maintaining robust audit trails and documentation.
Cross‑Team Collaboration
Work closely with the wider KYA Governance Team, contributing to workstreams, escalation packs, assurance reviews, and policy mapping.
Engage stakeholders across Investments, AFC, Risk, Legal and KYA SMEs to support a consistent and well‑governed KYA operating model.
About the candidate
Experience in governance, assurance, oversight, AFC/KYC/KYA processes, or outsourced service oversight within financial services.
Familiarity with assurance testing, sample‑based QA, and control‑effectiveness assessments.
Understanding of TPRO, TPRM or outsourcing frameworks.
Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
Confident in stakeholder engagement and constructive challenge.
Clear written and verbal communication skills, particularly in governance reporting.
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.