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About the Role

Aon shapes decisions for the better to protect and enrich lives globally. We are an inclusive team passionate about colleague and client success.

Responsibilities

Lead the annual operating plan, periodic forecast, and long-range planning processes for North America AGRC.
Develop clear revenue, salary, operating expense, and operating income outlooks.
Partner with AGRC leaders to evaluate forecast risks and opportunities and translate them into actionable plans.
Maintain transparent bridges between actual results, forecast, operating plan, and prior performance.
Assess the timing and financial impact of growth investments, replacement hiring, attrition, and workforce changes.
Ensure forecast assumptions are supported by appropriate business drivers and consistently reflected in financial systems.
Serve as a trusted finance partner to North America AGRC leadership and the Commercial Risk finance organization.
Provide financial insight on business performance, growth priorities, investments, productivity, and resource allocation.
Develop business cases for proposed investments, including financial implications.
Challenge business assumptions constructively and help leaders distinguish between baseline performance, committed growth, and incremental investment opportunities.
Coordinate with regional, practice, controllership, workforce planning, and global finance teams.
Translate complex financial topics into concise, decision-oriented recommendations for senior leadership.
Lead monthly and quarterly financial reviews for AGRC, including revenue, compensation, operating expense, margin, and operating income performance.
Prepare insightful management reporting and presentation materials for AGRC and Commercial Risk leadership.
Identify and explain material variances, emerging trends, and changes in the outlook.
Develop and maintain relevant financial and operational metrics.
Improve the clarity, consistency, and efficiency of financial reporting.
Support QBRs, forecast reviews, planning reviews, and other leadership forums.
Develop a detailed understanding of AGRC’s revenue model.
Partner with Controllership and business teams to support accurate revenue and expense recognition.
Review and coordinate recurring or complex revenue and expense allocations.
Analyze the impact of allocation methodologies on regional and practice results and recommend improvements.
Support review and approval of accruals, reclasses, and other financial entries affecting AGRC.
Maintain clear supporting documentation and appropriate controls for significant financial adjustments.
Strengthen forecasting, reporting, allocation, and planning processes through better standardization, documentation, and automation.
Improve the quality and traceability of assumptions, adjustments, and management reporting.
Partner across Finance to reconcile discrepancies between business views, management information, and reported financial results.
Support implementation of evolving Finance tools, reporting structures, and planning processes.
Promote strong financial controls, consistent definitions, and clear ownership across recurring processes.
Identify opportunities to reduce manual work while preserving business insight and flexibility.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
Relevant experience in FP&A, commercial finance, controllership, or business-unit finance.
Strong financial modeling, forecasting, variance analysis, and management reporting capabilities.
Demonstrated ability to partner with business leaders and convert financial analysis into clear recommendations.
Strong understanding of financial statements, revenue and expense drivers, accruals, allocations, and operating margin.
Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver accurate work within recurring deadlines.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing materials for senior leadership.
High degree of judgment, ownership, curiosity, and attention to detail.
Experience in insurance brokerage, consulting, professional services, or another project-based service environment.
Experience supporting a geographically dispersed or matrixed organization.
Familiarity with Workday, TM1, Adaptive Planning, Power BI, or comparable financial planning and reporting tools.
Experience with workforce planning, investment business cases, utilization or capacity analysis, and revenue allocation methodologies.
Experience improving or automating recurring finance processes.
Consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction record in accordance with local Fair Chance ordinances (for San Francisco and Los Angeles).

Skills

Financial modeling
Forecasting
Variance analysis
Management reporting
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint
Written communication
Verbal communication
Judgment
Ownership
Curiosity
Attention to detail
Workday
TM1
Adaptive Planning
Power BI

Location

Chicago, Illinois

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Relevant experience in FP&A, commercial finance, controllership, or business-unit finance
Experience in insurance brokerage, consulting, professional services, or another project-based service environment
Experience supporting a geographically dispersed or matrixed organization
Experience with workforce planning, investment business cases, utilization or capacity analysis, and revenue allocation methodologies
Experience improving or automating recurring finance processes

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.

Salary/Compensations

$110,000 - $125,000 annually
Eligible to participate in Aon’s annual incentive plans for a discretionary bonus

Benefits

401(k) savings plan with employer contributions
Employee stock purchase plan
Consideration for long-term incentive awards
Medical, dental and vision insurance
Various types of leaves of absence
Paid time off, including 12 paid holidays
15 days of paid vacation per year
Paid sick leave
Short-term disability
Optional long-term disability
Health savings account
Health care and dependent care reimbursement accounts
Employee and dependent life insurance
Supplemental life and AD&D insurance
Optional personal insurance policies
Adoption assistance
Tuition assistance
Commuter benefits
Employee assistance program with free counseling sessions

About the Company

Aon is in the business of better decisions.
At Aon, we shape decisions for the better to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world.
As an organization, we are united through trust as one inclusive team and we are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed.

Equal Opportunity

For positions in San Francisco and Los Angeles, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction record in accordance with local Fair Chance ordinances.
Aon is not accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this position. If you are a search firm, you will not be compensated in any way for your submission of a candidate, even if Aon hires that candidate.
Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.