Head of Tax Reporting

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.

Our Three Businesses

• Interactive Investor (ii) – the UK’s second largest direct‑to‑consumer investment platform, enabling individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.
• Adviser – provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
• Investments – 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.

Your Team

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 a specialist team led by the Tax Director, overseeing all tax‑related matters across the group as a global specialist function to ensure compliance, efficiency and strategic tax planning. It is located predominantly in Edinburgh and London and has teams covering Tax Reporting, Advisory and International, Public Markets Tax, Private Markets Tax and Indirect and Operational Taxes. This role sits within the Tax Reporting team reporting to the Tax Director.

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. There are three SMEs in this team which you would be managing.

Your Role in the Team's Success

You will be responsible for leading the provision of a comprehensive corporate tax reporting and compliance service to support the UK and international business. This is a key role in both the Tax and broader Finance function ensuring robust tax governance, accurate reporting and compliance whilst also driving process evolution and adaptation.

The role will be supported by a team and will also play a key part in shaping the strategic direction of the Tax function more widely, overseeing risk management practices, contributing to leadership development and role‑modeling the organisation’s values and behaviours.

The role holder will develop a good understanding of how the business operates and work with a wide range of other business areas to ensure that tax is effectively managed across the organisation. The role will also require the individual to develop strong working relationships with advisors and other external suppliers.

The successful candidate will have the autonomy to refine and enhance existing processes and to design new ones that keep pace with both our business and evolving global tax legislation.

Key Responsibilities and Outcomes

• Lead the reporting and forecasting of taxes across Aberdeen.
• Lead the oversight of tax compliance activities for the Aberdeen corporate entities and support the relationship with HMRC and other tax authorities.
• Oversight of group‑level filing requirements including Pillar 2, CBCR and CIR.
• Ensure the effective application and development of the tax risk and controls framework for the business alongside supporting governance and reporting requirements.
• Oversight of business management activities for the tax function.
• Supervise and develop team members providing applicable feedback, coaching and guidance.
• Work closely with other senior tax colleagues to ensure consistency of approach, sharing of knowledge and effective risk coverage for the business globally.
• Develop a thorough understanding of Aberdeen business operations to ensure that all relevant risks and requirements are addressed.
• Understand best practice and ensure industry representation for Aberdeen as appropriate with external stakeholders including applicable industry bodies.
• In conjunction with other senior members of the tax team, review and develop the tax strategy for the business.

What You'll Need for This Role

• ACA/CTA qualified or equivalent at senior manager or director level.
• Strong UK corporate tax background with exposure to international issues preferred.
• Experience in financial services or a large corporate group an advantage.
• Experience of finance transformation projects or development of tax systems an advantage.
• 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 stakeholders.
• 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, ensuring work, projects and advice directly support organisational strategy and contribute to sustainable growth.
• Meaningful Impact – delivers work that positively influences people, performance and the wider organisation by focusing on outcomes and building trusted relationships with stakeholders.
• Experience with working with third parties to drive transformation change and experience with data will be advantageous.

Our Benefits

We offer 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.

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. Aberdeen has adopted a blended working approach that combines the benefits of face‑to‑face collaboration, coaching and connection with the flexibility of working from home, enabling colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, teams, clients and business.

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 – including but 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.

Disability Confidence Statement

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please complete the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. A member of our team will reach out to support you through the application process.

If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability, please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.

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