Aegon UK
Finance Operations Support Analyst
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Finance Operations Support Analyst
Permanent
Location: Edinburgh
(We believe in the power of in-person collaboration, and our hybrid model requires colleagues to be in the office a minimum of 40% of their time)
Salary: A competitive salary from £28,160 - £35,200 depending on the experience you can bring
Closing date: 24th July 2026
We’re the UK’s largest investment platform, and we put financial wellbeing at the heart of our organisation. We work with customers, financial advisers and employers to provide pensions, savings and investment solutions. We help people live their best lives. We help them with the big stuff, for the moments that matter: Pensions, Savings, Investments.
At Aegon, we strive in creating a diverse organisation that plays a meaningful role in driving greater equity, inclusion and belonging. We are currently hiring for a Finance Operations Support Analyst to join our team in Edinburgh.
In this role, you will provide support to the Finance management team, ensuring that all regulatory, governance, risk and people management activities are completed accurately, consistently, and on time. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, you will help leadership stay informed by gathering, preparing, and presenting relevant data, insights, and updates on upcoming initiatives, operational deliverables, and business changes.
You will act as a facilitator across Finance teams, in driving effective operational management, embedding effective communication practices, supporting risk management routines, and helping ensure consistent ways of working across the department. You will also coordinate activity for key processes and project related tasks, including providing cross departmental support alongside IT, Operations, and other business areas to ensure actions are aligned and delivered.
In addition, the role supports wider management by assisting with ad hoc tasks and helping to plan and organise biannual Finance strategy days.
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Key Responsibilities include:
- Contributing to management meetings by sharing clear, well-structured information.
- Supporting the Finance Management team in ensuring effective operational management of Finance, promoting consistency, efficiency, and effective communication across teams.
- Facilitating operational planning, including critical timetabling, training coordination, and readiness for cyclical Finance activity.
- Acting as a Finance delegate in selected meetings, ensuring actions, requirements, and follow ups are coordinated across BAU activities and projects.
- Building and maintaining strong working links with IT, Operations, and other business areas to ensure Finance operational activities are well coordinated and delivered effectively.
- Coordinating Finance’s Sox and Risk actions, ensuring activities are completed, closed on time, and progress updates are shared regularly with management.
- Liaising with other internal teams and process owners to ensure the effective operation of Finance systems, escalating risks or issues as needed.
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- Experience in a Financial administration or support role.
- Proven stakeholder management experience within a large organisation – ideally within financial services.
- Prepare and maintain key MI dashboards used by management to monitor performance, risks, and priorities.
- Awareness of financial controls & risk management practices and how they apply within teams.
- Familiarity with regulatory & compliance requirements (E.g. CASS, ISA & PRAS).
- Excellent Excel and analysis skills.
- Strong communication skills.
- The ability to work independently and autonomously.
What’s in it for you?
- We’re serious about your future and our enhanced pension scheme is now in place. We ask you to contribute 3% of your salary to your pension and we’ll put in 9%. If you decide to contribute more, we’ll match it up to a combined total of 20% of your salary (that’s 7% from you and 13% from us).
- A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance
- 34 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time)
- We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave and a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our employees live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments.
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The legal bits
We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing satisfactory references.
Equal Opportunity Employer: We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their age, disability, race, religion/belief, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity.
Our story started over 190 years ago, right here in the UK. We were originally founded as Scottish Equitable, but today we’re part of Aegon. We’re the UK’s largest investment platform, and we put financial wellbeing at the heart of our organisation. As a purpose-led business, we're focused on supporting our customers as they navigate through new stages of their lives and all the moments that matter. We're here for everyone who wants to make the most of their time on the planet and leave it a little better than they found it, however grand or humble their ambitions.
Working at Aegon, you'll play an important part in helping achieve this.
Read more about life at Aegon here - https://www.aegon.co.uk/careers
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