Standard Life Aberdeen

Job Description

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 – a leading investment management business looking after £368bn of assets for Institutional, Wholesale and Insurance clients
• Aberdeen Adviser – one of the UK’s largest providers of platform services to financial advisers with £75bn in assets across our Wrap and Elevate platforms
• interactive investor – the UK’s most trusted investment platform for individual investors with 430,000 customers who have invested almost £75bn with us

Our strategy is to build a vibrant and value-creating purpose-led organisation, with the current and future needs of our stakeholders at the heart of all we do.

About the Role

As an Information Security Governance Specialist, you will play a key role in shaping and maintaining the governance framework that underpins our security and resilience strategy. Reporting to the Information Security Governance Manager, you will help ensure our policies, controls, and oversight processes align with global standards and regulatory expectations, supporting the protection of our clients, data, and services.

Key Responsibilities

• Working with the Information Security Governance Manager and the wider team, develop and implement Aberdeen’s Security & Resilience Governance framework delivering support and oversight to relevant teams in line with global security standards.
• Operate consistently with recognised professional practices and support external reviews and requests from stakeholders such as clients, regulators and auditors.
• Maintain & develop the Information and Cyber Security (ICS) and Technology (IT) policies as part of the Enterprise Risk Management Framework and ensure alignment with industry best practices, regulatory requirements, and the evolving risk landscape.
• Provide insightful and risk-based review of third-party assurance returns for Information Security supporting an extensive supply chain.
• This role offers a strong foundation for progression into senior governance, risk leadership, or specialist advisory roles within the organisation.

About the Candidate

• In-depth understanding of IT, Security, and associated practices within large, complex organisations.
• Strong grasp of risk management principles and their application in financial services environments.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Security, Resilience, and Technology Risk, including relevant industry standards (e.g. NIST, ISO 27001/2, COBIT).
• Solid understanding of fund management, financial services, and the markets in which they operate.
• Awareness of regulatory impacts on security and resilience practices.
• Proven ability to develop and maintain Information Security policies and standards that enhance security culture across the organisation.

We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and are happy to provide adjustments to the recruitment process to support candidates.

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.

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.