Job detail for Senior Oracle ERP Techno-Functional Analyst

Job Description

At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group.

Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent.

Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society.

We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.

Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs:

• interactive investor, the UK’s second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.

• Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.

• Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior ERP Technical Analyst with strong Oracle ERP Finance knowledge and the confidence to work across business and technology teams. The role will support and improve Aberdeen’s Oracle ERP Finance platform, including Supplier Portal, General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Cash Management, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable. The successful candidate will translate Finance requirements into system changes, lead patching and release activity, resolve production issues and work with stakeholders, vendors and Oracle support to keep the platform stable, controlled and ready for future change.

Key areas of accountability & outcomes for this role include:

• Support and enhance Oracle ERP Finance modules, including Supplier Portal, General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Cash Management, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable.

• Configure and improve Supplier Portal onboarding, approvals, questionnaires, notifications and access controls.

• Lead Oracle ERP patching and releases, including impact assessment, regression planning, defect management and production implementation.

• Investigate and resolve issues across configuration, data, integrations, reporting, access and scheduled processes.

• Work with Finance, Procurement and Accounts Payable stakeholders to understand requirements, support testing and maintain clear process documentation.

• Maintain strong controls through clear documentation, test evidence, run books, change records and release readiness materials.

Candidate requirements:

The successful candidate will have strong Oracle ERP Finance experience, ideally within Oracle Cloud ERP. They will combine functional finance knowledge with practical technical skills across configuration, patching, release testing, troubleshooting, reporting and service management. They should be comfortable working with both business and technology teams, with good attention to detail, strong problem-solving skills and a continuous improvement mindset.

There are some essential requirements of the role. The role holder will have:

• Strong understanding of Oracle ERP Finance processes, particularly Supplier Portal, General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Cash Management, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable.

• Hands-on experience with Oracle ERP Finance configuration, including set-up changes, impact assessment and controlled promotion through test and production environments.

• Experience configuring Supplier Portal onboarding, registration, approvals, questionnaires, notifications and process controls.

• Experience leading Oracle ERP patching, quarterly updates, regression testing, defect management and go-live support.

• Ability to troubleshoot issues across scheduled processes, data loads, transaction processing, reporting, interfaces and integrations.

• Experience using ERP reports, data extracts, reconciliations and exception analysis to support Finance operations.

• Good awareness of Oracle ERP roles, access, permissions and segregation of duties controls.

• Experience supporting testing, documentation, Oracle service requests, incidents, problems and change management activity.

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.

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.