Transactions Analyst

About Aberdeen

At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group. Strengthening talent and culture is a strategic priority, as we strive to be a great place to work to attract and retain the industry’s best talent. Our people prioritize our stakeholders by helping us 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 focusing on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs:

• Interactive Investor: The UK’s second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enabling individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in a way that works for them.
• Adviser business: Provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
• Investments business: A specialist asset manager focusing on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on key market themes, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.

The Real Estate Investments Team

Our Real Estate Investments team is responsible for the acquisition, management, and disposal of assets across multiple European markets. Working closely with fund management, portfolio management, development, research, and strategy teams, the department supports investment performance and enables our clients to be better investors. The team combines market insight, disciplined execution, and collaborative working to deliver outcomes across a diverse portfolio.

About the Role

This pan-European role sits within the European Transactions team and will support the coordination and execution of acquisitions and disposals across Aberdeen’s European real estate portfolio, working alongside the Head of Investments Execution and colleagues across the region. This role offers exposure to multiple jurisdictions, asset classes, and investment strategies, providing an excellent platform to build deep real estate transaction expertise. You will also help improve processes, data management, and reporting through AI and workflow automation. Based in London, this is an opportunity to make a visible impact while developing your career.

Key Responsibilities

• Help coordinate and support acquisitions and disposals across Aberdeen’s European real estate portfolio.
• Appraise investment and divestment opportunities and contribute insight to transaction decision-making.
• Prepare investment committee papers, transaction reports, and client presentation materials.
• Maintain transaction data, records, and reporting to support existing funds and new fund launches.
• Collaborate with colleagues across fund management, portfolio management, research, and development teams.
• Identify opportunities to enhance efficiency through AI solutions and workflow automation.

About the Candidate

• Knowledge of, or genuine interest in, the European real estate investment market.
• Experience supporting transaction processes, investment analysis, or related real estate activities.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
• Experience using data to support decision making.
• Analytical mindset with experience preparing reports, proposals, or supporting papers.
• Ability to build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Curiosity, initiative, and a continuous improvement mindset.
• Experience using AI, automation tools, or process improvement techniques.

Benefits and Culture

Our Benefits: There's more to working life than a good salary. In our environment, you can learn, get involved, and be supported. When you join us, your reward will be among the best available. 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 use a ‘blended working’ approach, combining the benefits of face-to-face collaboration in our offices with the flexibility of working from home, enabling colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, teams, clients, and the business.

An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. We are 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, 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.

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. A team member will reach out to support you through your application process. If you require assistance or an adjustment due to a disability, please let us know as part of your application, and we will assist.