Overview
Business Analyst - Client Data role at Aberdeen.
This role will be primarily focused in supporting the delivery of client data across the firm, which is pivotal to our strategy and enabling the business and client. You will help bridge the gap between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring that data solutions - built on our Snowflake data warehouse - are aligned with the needs across clients, distribution, product, and investment teams.
You will work closely with data engineers, technical leads, product owners, and reporting teams to define requirements, validate data outputs, and continuously improve the quality and usability of our reporting solutions. This role requires a flexible and driven individual to help us shape the future of the client experience at Aberdeen.
Key Responsibilities
* Engage with internal stakeholders to understand reporting needs related to client data.
* Translate business requirements into clear, actionable user stories and acceptance criteria for the data engineering team.
* Identify opportunities to streamline reporting processes and enhance data accessibility for end users.
* Maintain documentation of data definitions, business rules, and reporting logic to support transparency and governance.
* Contribute to the continuous improvement of Agile practices, participating in sprint planning, retrospectives, and backlog grooming.
* Identify opportunities to reuse existing functionality, simplify processes, and leverage configuration to accelerate solution delivery.
* Utilise AI and automation technology to enhance the analyst role and share best practices with colleagues.
About the Candidate
* Proven experience as a Business Analyst in a financial services or asset management environment
* Familiarity with Snowflake or similar cloud-based data warehouse platforms
* Ability to think from the perspective of internal end users, with a focus on usability, clarity, and business value
* Experience working in Agile teams, with proficiency in tools like Jira, Confluence, or Azure DevOps
* Strong analytical mindset with the ability to interpret complex investment data and identify trends or anomalies
* Experience with reporting tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or Excel-based dashboards and familiarity with SQL and Python for querying and validating data
We’re 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.
Benefits
* 40 days’ annual leave
* 16% employer pension contribution
* Discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable)
* Private healthcare
* 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.
Inclusive 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.
Job details
* Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Research, Analyst, and Information Technology
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