Lead controller Work, Jobs in Edinburgh, Sct (with Salaries)

GL Lead Controller
Aberdeen —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Leadership
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
10d
Billing Lead
Aberdeen —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Leadership
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
10d
Import Export Controller
Leonardo UK Ltd —Edinburgh
- £38,000 - £48,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Communication skills
- Flexible schedule
- Referral programme
CDE Lead / Principal Consultant - Real Estate - UK Wide
Turner & Townsend —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Management
- No experience needed
- Presentation skills
Quick apply
Senior Operational Finance Manager – 6 Month Fixed Term Contract
Trainline —Edinburgh
- £75,000 - £80,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Continuous improvement
- Team management
- Communication skills
5h
Finance Business Partner - Edinburgh
Anderson Strathern —Edinburgh
- Hybrid work
- Presentation skills
- Organisational skills
- Budgeting
Senior Courier
DHL —Edinburgh
- £39,101.40 a year
- Monday to Friday
- Customer service
- Supervising experience
- Training & development
3d
Financial Controller
Elior UK —Edinburgh
- £50,000 a year
- Full-time
- Team management
- Leadership
- Analytics
Quick apply
14d
Billing Associate
Aberdeen —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Analysis skills
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
10d
Cluster Assistant Financial Controller
Malmaison —Edinburgh
- £30,400 a year
- Hospitality
- Hotel
- Cash handling
- Employee assistance programme
- Employee discount
Quick apply
3d
Lead Project Cost Controller
NAVANTIA UK —Methil
- Full-time
- Engineering
- Analysis skills
- No degree
Quick apply
4d
General Ledger Analyst
Aberdeen —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- AI
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
10d
Senior Project Controller
Babcock International —Dunfermline
- £56,570 - £66,229 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Management
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
Workshop Controller
Arnold Clark —Edinburgh
- £35,000 - £45,000 a year
- Customer service
- Computer skills
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
Quick apply
Credit Controller - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract
Alexander Dennis —Larbert
- Call to connect
- Hybrid work
- Analysis skills
- Communication skills
Quick apply
Accountant / Financial Controller
Easy Living Developments Ltd —Glenrothes
- £35,000 - £45,000 a year
- Part-time
- Microsoft Excel
- Management
- Analysis skills
Quick apply
Senior Risk Manager
Turner & Townsend —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Continuous improvement
- Team management
- Travel
Quick apply
Plant Engineer
Pharmaplasti Middle East —Edinburgh
- £88,000 a year
- AutoCAD
- Maintenance
- Programmable logic controllers
- Referral programme
Quick apply
5d
Warehouse Team Leader
NorthBritish —West Calder
- Continuous improvement
- Training & development
- Leadership
10d
Associate Director - Risk Management
Turner & Townsend —Edinburgh
- Full-time
- Continuous improvement
- Team management
- Travel
Quick apply

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GL Lead Controller

Aberdeen -
Edinburgh

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Job details

Full-time
10 days ago

Benefits

Annual leave
Company pension
Discounted gym membership
Private medical insurance
Employee discount

Qualifications

Chartered Accountant
ACA
Controllership experience
ERP software
Finance and accounting experience
Leadership

Full job description

Job Description

About Aberdeen

Aberdeen plc is one of Europe’s largest investment companies, and we are built on a long-standing culture of caring about the future and making a positive impact. Together we invest for a better future. We do it to make a difference to the lives of our clients and customers, our employees, society, and our shareholders. Our business is structured around three distinct areas focused on our clients' changing needs: Aberdeen Investments, Aberdeen Adviser, and interactive investor.

As GL Lead Controller, you will help bring “Invest in your tomorrow” to life by protecting financial integrity and enabling trusted decisions for our clients and our business.

About the Department

Finance Operations is a core part of Aberdeen’s Finance function, delivering services across Record to Report, Billing, Banking, Accounts Payable and Supplier Relationship Management. Within Group Financial Control, the team provides accurate outputs, robust controls and timely reporting, working with colleagues in Edinburgh and Chennai.

Record to Report underpins reliable financial reporting, regulatory compliance and informed decisions, helping enable our clients to be better investors. The team is evolving through continuous improvement, automation and transformation, with strong control discipline and ownership of the numbers.

About the Role

This Finance Operations GL (general ledger) Lead Controller role is a senior leadership opportunity within Record to Report in Edinburgh. You will own R2R across Finance Operations and its interface with Group Finance, acting as financial controller of the ledger and final point of accountability for control, judgement and integrity. Leading GL Leads and a wider team of GL Analysts, you will set the vision, standards and operating framework while owning data integrity, balance sheet substantiation, financial storytelling and senior stakeholder insight. You will also drive automation, AI adoption and enterprise-wide transformation, shaping a scalable future operating model.

Key Responsibilities

Act as the ultimate controller of the General Ledger, ensuring accuracy, completeness and integrity of financial data across the Group.
Own Balance Sheet Substantiation for Group Finance and Finance Operations, ensuring balances, journals and outputs are supported, controlled and audit ready.
Lead the global Record to Report operating model, setting standards and governance for accurate close delivery.
Provide senior financial insight, challenge and storytelling, linking outputs to business drivers and risks.
Oversee revenue, cost and technical accounting governance, including intercompany, transfer pricing, cost control and fixed assets.
Lead GL Leads and the wider R2R organisation while driving transformation, automation, AI adoption and cross-functional strategic delivery.

About the Candidate

Essential requirements

Fully qualified accountant, such as CA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent.
Significant experience leading Record to Report in a complex, global organisation, with Controller or senior GL leadership ownership.
Deep expertise across general ledger, revenue and cost accounting, acting as custodian of financial integrity and control.
Proven ownership of Balance Sheet Substantiation, financial narrative, senior stakeholder insight and senior-level financial challenge.
Ability to lead multi-layered teams, including leaders, with strong stakeholder engagement and confidence to influence and challenge.
Experience as the final escalation point for R2R financial and control risk, using Oracle or a similar ERP within global and outsourced delivery models.

Preferred experience

Strong experience leading transformation, automation and AI initiatives within Record to Report or a comparable finance operations environment.

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.

Ready to invest in your tomorrow as a Finance Operations GL Lead Controller in Edinburgh? Apply now and join Aberdeen in enabling our clients to be better investors.

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.

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