Senior Structuring Advisor (Fund Structuring) - London, Edinburgh

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

The Real Assets Structuring team is truly multi-disciplinary, covering Investment, Legal and Tax components in Real Estate and Infrastructure. As a centralised team, a consistent structuring service will be provided globally across many asset classes including Real Estate and Infrastructure.

The Senior Structuring Adviser is responsible for supporting the legal requirements of the procurement and management of fund launches and asset level structuring and/or transaction solutions, the delivery of consistent clear risk mitigating advice and general fund transactions in a risk-controlled manner and which meet the commercial objectives of the Real Assets business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Legally support product development and innovation, investment activity and commercialisation across Real Assets for new Funds and existing Funds.
• enhance investment capability, offer a world class enabling function focused on delivery of fund and asset structuring and efficient transaction structuring to deploy capital in all forms of Real Estate.
• engage with investment teams to establish strong embedded lines within and aligned to the investment teams to support our rapid growth and delivery of investment performance.
• engage with other key stakeholders across the product and investment lifecycle.
• offer client differentiation through a multidisciplinary team.
• Contribute to a global centre to service all end-to-end investment management strategies across Real Assets.
• Enhance investment returns by enhancing and protecting alpha.
• Have knowledge of Real Assets transactions across the investment lifecycle
• Generate and support product development and innovation across Real Assets.
• Ensure the application of common processes, standards, structures and lessons learned across asset classes, where appropriate.
• Adherence to house policy, investment policy, specific regulatory restrictions and building collaborative working relationships with central support functions including Operations, Tax and Legal to ensure ongoing compliance.
• Develop strong working relationships with the wider Real Assets teams and key stakeholders to the Real Assets business to ensure effective delivery of fund and asset level transactions and structuring solutions, working closely and proactively with fund managers, portfolio managers, Global Product (in particular Alternative Product), Investment Specialists, Operations teams, Investment Governance & Oversight, Risk & Compliance, Group Legal, Procurement & Supplier Management, other internal and external stakeholders and external service providers.

About the Candidate:

• Qualified Lawyer or other relevant qualification
• Exposure to Financial Services Industry preferred
• Practical working knowledge of fund launches
• Knowledge of the commercial and legal aspects of transactions in Alternative Asset classes.
• Technical expertise in relevant areas and ability to explain technical concepts in understandable terms

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.