Finance Assistant

Finance Assistant - Edinburgh

People are living longer than ever before, and we’re excited by the opportunities this brings. 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. We have three behaviours that are central to how we operate as a team and a business: we step up, we tune in and we’re a force for good.

The Team

We have an exciting opportunity for a Finance Assistant to join our General Ledger Control team. Reporting to the General Ledger Team Manager, the Finance Assistant will play a vital role in ensuring the operation of financial accounting controls within Aegon.

The Role

This role undertakes the day-to-day activity of the operations department delivering a quality service to standard for its stakeholders. This includes, processing a range of journals, performing reconciliations, preparing trustee cash books, financial analysis, intercompany accounting, banking, checking of ledger transactions & balances, to ensure that the financial accounting controls are operating as planned.

Partner key stakeholders to reduce financial risks & exposures in relation to key processes. Identify accounting and process anomalies, investigate and resolve.

Key responsibilities

Skills

Knowledge

Experience

Qualifications Desirable

How we look after you

Outside of a competitive salary, working with us comes with a range of benefits that you can access from day one, including:

We champion a collaborative, supportive working environment where you’ll have the opportunity to develop yourself and your career in a way that works for you. Our reward programmes encourage peer-to-peer recognition, and we offer a discretionary annual bonus dependent on company and individual performance.

How we look after the community and the environment

Aegon supports local causes that align with our purpose and ambitions. Our goal is to serve and strengthen the communities where we do business and create a better quality of life for everyone. Our employees are encouraged to support charities they feel passionate about and are offered volunteering days.

Responsible investment is a key element of Aegon’s company-wide approach to sustainability. Aegon is committed to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing, we have over 30 years' experience managing responsible investments and offer over 200 responsible investment options across our platforms.

Flexible working

We’re transitioning to our new normal, and we’re welcoming everyone back to working in new, collaborative, and exciting ways. We’ve adopted a hybrid environment of remote and office working, so it’s important that you live within a commutable distance to our offices.

We know that people have busy lives and commitments outside of work, so we offer flexible work arrangements where possible to support our employees.

We’re an equal opportunities employer

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their age, disability, race, religion/belief, gender, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

As an international and multicultural business, we celebrate a range of festive days to support the rich diversity of our employees. Our Chief Marketing Officer leads our own LGBTQ+ community group, and we proudly sponsor Pride events across the UK.

We also work with key partners like to support our commitment to equal opportunities in the workplace.

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Who we’re made up of

We’re a company of ambitious, collaborative, problem-solvers who get things done. We strive to make sure everyone that works for us feel seen, heard, and valued – so we’re looking for like-minded people to join us.

What you need to know

We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you the 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.