Job Description
About Aberdeen
Aberdeen Group 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 part of our Internal Audit function, this role offers the opportunity to shape technology assurance across the Group while investing in your tomorrow through meaningful leadership, development and impact.
About the Department
Internal Audit plays a critical role in helping Aberdeen achieve its strategic objectives while managing risk effectively. Working across Aberdeen Investments, Aberdeen Adviser, interactive investor and central functions, the team provides independent, risk-based assurance that supports strong governance and decision-making. The function is collaborative, forward-thinking and increasingly focused on data, technology and innovation to help enable our clients to be better investors.
About the Role
As IT Senior Audit Manager, you will be a senior leader within Internal Audit, reporting into the technology audit leadership team and acting as a key partner to senior stakeholders across the business. You will lead complex technology audits, oversee technology risk assessments and audit planning, manage integrated audit engagements and help shape the future direction of technology assurance across Aberdeen. This is an opportunity to influence decision-making at the highest levels, coach and develop talented audit professionals, and provide assurance across a diverse and evolving technology landscape. The role offers significant exposure to senior executives and major strategic initiatives, helping you invest in your tomorrow while delivering meaningful impact.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the annual technology audit planning process, technology risk assessment activity and development of risk-based audit coverage across the Group.
- Deliver complex technology audits and technology assurance workstreams within integrated audits, ensuring high-quality and timely outcomes.
- Build trusted relationships with C-suite and senior technology stakeholders, providing insight on emerging risks and assurance priorities.
- Oversee issue validation, portfolio quality and reporting, identifying themes and opportunities for sustainable risk reduction.
- Lead, coach and develop audit professionals, allocating resources effectively and supporting capability growth across the team.
- Act as deputy to the Head of Audit IT when required and represent Internal Audit at senior governance and leadership forums.
About the Candidate
- Significant internal audit, risk or assurance experience within financial services, including leadership responsibility.
- Proven ability to lead complex, risk-based technology audits across multiple business areas and control environments.
- Experience of integrated audits and partnering effectively with business audit teams and senior stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of technology risks affecting large financial services organisations.
- Excellent communication, influencing and relationship-management skills with the ability to translate technical topics into business impact.
- Relevant professional qualification such as CISA, CISM or CRISC.
Desirable: Experience in technology risk functions, knowledge of COBIT, ITIL, ISO 27001 or NIST frameworks, exposure to cyber security, resilience, cloud, data, AI and third-party technology assurance, and experience using data analytics or AI-enabled audit tools.
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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.
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Skills Required
- Significant internal audit, risk, or assurance experience within financial services
- Leadership experience and responsibility
- Experience leading complex, risk-based technology audits across multiple business areas and control environments
- Experience with integrated audits and business audit teams
- Strong understanding of technology risks in large financial services organizations
- Excellent communication, influencing, and relationship-management skills
- Ability to translate technical topics into business impact
- Relevant professional qualification such as CISA, CISM, or CRISC
- Experience in technology risk functions
- Knowledge of COBIT, ITIL, ISO 27001, or NIST frameworks
- Exposure to cybersecurity, resilience, cloud, data, AI, and third-party technology assurance
- Experience using data analytics or AI-enabled audit tools
What We Do
abrdn is a global investment company that helps clients and customers plan, save and invest for the future. Our purpose is to enable our clients to be better investors. Our strategy is to deliver client-led growth. We are structured around three businesses – Investments, Adviser and Personal – focused on their changing needs
