Platform Recs & Controls Administrator (12-month FTC)

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Job Description

Platform Reconciliations & Controls Administrator (12-month FTC)

Location: Edinburgh or Witham (We believe in the power of in-person collaboration, and our hybrid model requires colleagues to be in the office a minimum of 40% of their time).

Salary: A competitive salary from £25,760 - £38,640, depending on the experience you can bring.

Closing date: Friday 27 November 2026

People are living longer and we’re excited by the opportunities this brings to help people live their best lives. 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. 

We help people live their best lives. We help them with the big stuff, for the moments that matter: Pensions, Savings, Investments. At Aegon, we strive in creating a diverse organisation that plays a meaningful role in driving greater equity, inclusion and belonging.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Platform Investment Administration team. In this role, you will support key processes and work across the department spanning both our Witham and Edinburgh location.

You will work as part of a team to facilitate and deliver monthly and daily processes and undertake client transaction reconciliation and processing activity, while adhering to appropriate regulatory guidance and internal timescales.

In this role you will support the business operation by completing several critical business processes. Additionally, you will work to support the delivery of the functions regulatory and internal reporting requirements, whilst engaging with our Operations teams to ensure prompt and accurate funding is in place, timely payment and transfer processing and tax submissions are completed within timelines.

Key responsibilities:

• You will take responsibility for operating and maintaining core team processes, money processing and reporting, ensuring consistency against procedures, process checking and error control.
• You will take responsibility for the timely processing, reconciliation and reporting activities including investigating any issues or exceptions that may arise in your processes.
• Process the management of exceptions arising from the team’s core work, this is typically the result of processing failures that require investigation and a solution outside the standard model.
• Take responsibility for own development and work towards completing capability matrix measures and actively seek to build a full working knowledge of all end-to-end processes of the platform.
• Provide assurance to your colleague’s work to ensure that errors are minimised and the customer receives the best quality service.

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• Strong level of numeracy, accuracy, and attention to detail.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to develop collaborative relationships with team and department members.
• Understanding of the principles of Client Money regulations, rules, and practices.
• Strong grasp of banking, payment and reconciliation solutions (Cash and Assets), tax wrappers and associated regulations.
• Good knowledge of the platform market, competitors, and platform investments.

What’s in it for you?

• We’re serious about your future and our enhanced pension scheme is now in place.  We ask you to contribute 3% of your salary to your pension and we’ll put in 9%.  If you decide to contribute more, we’ll match it up to a combined total of 20% of your salary (that’s 7% from you and 13% from us). 
• A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance
• 34 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time)

We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave, and a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our employees live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments.

Join us and be part of a dynamic team where your skills will make a difference! Apply now!

The legal bits

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

About Us

Our story started over 190 years ago, right here in the UK. We were originally founded as Scottish Equitable, but today we’re part of Aegon. We’re the UK’s largest investment platform, and we put financial wellbeing at the heart of our organisation.

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. Read more about life at Aegon here - https://www.aegon.co.uk/careers