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
Aberdeen’s Finance Squad sits within the Corporate Technology Office, this is responsible for managing Aberdeen's core Finance systems with Anaplan being one of its Strategic tools of choice. Aberdeen is also live with Oracle Financials (GL, AP, AR, FA) & Oracle ERP Cloud solutions (Fusion), and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM). We have an exciting roadmap ahead of us to further enhance our systems architecture over the next 3 years and embed and enhance ways or working.
About the role
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Anaplan Analyst with deep expertise in Anaplan model building and strong experience in Cloud-based applications. This role will focus on designing, maintaining, and optimizing financial and operational planning models, while leveraging cloud technologies to deliver scalable and efficient solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Design, build, maintain and optimise enterprise-scale Anaplan models across finance planning use cases such as budgeting, forecasting, cost centre planning, workforce planning, scenario modelling and management reporting.
Translate business requirements into scalable Anaplan solutions, working closely with Finance stakeholders, Product Owners, SMEs and technology teams.
Apply Anaplan best-practice model design principles, including DISCO, PLANS, model optimisation, scalability, sparsity management and maintainability.
Design and support Anaplan integrations, including data hubs, imports, exports, APIs, CloudWorks or Anaplan Connect, ensuring appropriate reconciliation and control processes are in place.
Own production model support, issue resolution, release management and continuous improvement activity across the Anaplan estate.
Manage testing activity across unit testing, system integration testing, regression testing, user acceptance testing, defect triage and financial reconciliation.
Support Anaplan governance and security, including role-based access, selective access, change controls, auditability and compliance with internal technology standards.
Provide technical assurance for Anaplan changes, challenging requirements where appropriate and ensuring solutions are robust, scalable and aligned to the wider Finance systems roadmap.
Produce clear documentation, training materials and support guidance for business users and technology teams.
Mentor and support junior model builders or analysts, sharing Anaplan best practice and helping improve team capability.
About the candidate
Anaplan certification and expertise: Anaplan Level 3 Model Builder certification is essential, with demonstrable experience building, maintaining and optimising complex enterprise-scale Anaplan models.
Best-practice model design: Strong practical knowledge of Anaplan best-practice design principles, including DISCO, PLANS, model optimisation, sparsity management, scalability and maintainability.
Finance planning and systems experience: Proven experience delivering Anaplan solutions across finance or enterprise planning use cases, such as budgeting, forecasting, workforce planning, management reporting and scenario modelling.
Integration, governance and controls: Experience with Anaplan integrations, data hubs, imports, exports, APIs, CloudWorks or Anaplan Connect, alongside strong understanding of access controls, change management and release governance.
Stakeholder and delivery capability: Confident working with Finance stakeholders, Product Owners, SMEs and technology teams, with strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation and mentoring skills.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. Therefore, 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 and 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.
