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Job Description

Role title: Investment Vector Governance Transformation Senior Manager

Contract type: 12 month FTC 

Location: Edinburgh

About

At abrdn, our purpose is to enable our clients to be better investors.

Clients worldwide trust us to find future-fit investment opportunities to deliver the outcomes they want. Our technology and insight help empower them to make better decisions, while the powerful partnerships we build help to enhance the expertise that we offer. And by enabling clients to invest responsibly, it helps us to build a better world.

About the Department

The Investment Vector Governance team, within the Investment Vector Chief Operating Officer (IVCOO) division, have responsibility for establishing and maintaining the governance, risk management and controls framework across the Investment Vector. This framework is essential to the running of a sustainably profitable, purposeful and responsible business by 1) creating appropriate levels of visibility for all key internal and external customers to the material risks being run; 2) providing a clear and simple framework for the robust consideration of risk, balanced against commercial purpose, and; 3) demonstrating risk and control insights to make better commercial decisions for the benefit of our clients and customers.

About the Role

In this role you will support the Head of Governance – Investment Vector to ensure that the Governance model across the Investment Vector is developed and improved to meet the changing needs of the business, key partners within the Investment Vector and relevant Regulated Legal Entities (e.g. investment managers, management companies etc.) across the world. A key part of this will be working with the teams in IV COO to help ensure that the governance, risk management and control framework is well designed, and effectively embedded across all teams within the Investment Vector with appropriate levels of consistency. Once embedded, you will play a key role in ensuring that the frameworks operate effectively as the business evolves, and are supported by IVCOO through the provision of data and centralisation of activity (where appropriate).

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design and Develop methodology and approach to identify key accountabilities across the Vector and set the framework for accountable individuals to demonstrate consistently how their accountabilities are being met;
  • Lead implementation and embedding of the Risk and Control Self Assessment process across Investments business globally;
  • Develop, Embed and Manage approaches and processes to various components of the governance, risk management and controls framework across the Investments business;
  • Ensure ongoing alignment of responsibilities and accountabilities between individuals (pursuant to SMCR or other relevant local requirements), legal entities, processes and controls across the Investments Vector.
  • Develop tools and approaches to facilitate the effective communication of the framework
  • Collaborate closely with partners from across the team (particularly those engaged in delivering other aspects of the framework), division and vector to ensure that the framework is embedded holistically, effectively and efficiently.
  • Build and manage ongoing processes within IVCOO to support the governance, risk management and controls framework across the Investment Vector, including data provision and oversight activity.

About The Candidate

To be successful in this role you will need (minimum experience/ requirements):

  • Solid experience of complex problem solving; ideally with either a risk, compliance and/or legal background
  • Evidence of a proactive and strategic working style, able to anticipate and manage issues effectively
  • Experience of managing a varied and demanding workload across functional projects
  • Excellent communicator (written and oral) and attention to detail.
  • Extensive practical experience in a risk or controls role, with relevant qualifications or training being an advantage
  • Good knowledge of asset management processes across operations, client, investments and product functions an advantage
  • Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
  • Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to build and maintain strong working relationships

Moreover, we recognise that supplementary skills beyond the minimum criteria can greatly enhance your success in this position. These skills are:

  • A team player – able to collaborate effectively with your colleagues, consistently putting the teams’ goals and interests ahead of personal ones and actively contributing to the wider teams shared objectives.
  • Excellent time management skills – the ability to demonstrate exceptional time management skills by efficiently planning and prioritising tasks to meet deadlines.
  • Self-Motivation – you exhibit a high level of self-motivation and can take the initiative to identify and tackle challenges proactively.
  • You are able to take ownership of your work, ensuring that it aligns with organisational objectives and quality standards.

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.

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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