Director, AI Lead - Finance Agents Engineering (Financial Close & Operations)
About The Position
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. This is your unique opportunity to lead the design, build, and deployment of AI-enabled finance agents and agentic workflows that automate and govern core close activities, including intercompany processing, reconciliations, variance diagnostics, and SOX-aligned controls. This role owns the agent layer of the close, ensuring speed, integrity, and audit readiness.
Requirements
- 10+ years across Controllership, Finance Transformation, or Finance Technology
- Demonstrated experience deploying automation, bots, or agents in close or accounting environments
- Strong understanding of SOX, control frameworks, and audit expectations
- Hands‑on exposure to modern data platforms (e.g., Databricks, cloud lakehouse architectures)
- Ability to bridge accounting judgment, technology, and governance
Responsibilities
- Architect and deploy finance agents that orchestrate intercompany workflows, reconciliations, and exception management.
- Orchestrate intercompany workflows, reconciliations, and exception management.
- Perform close diagnostics, anomaly detection, and preparer‑reviewer support.
- Enforce SOX‑aligned workflows, approvals, and evidence capture.
- Design agentic workflows integrated with Workday, Databricks, Accounting Center, and reporting tools.
- Translate close policies and accounting logic into executable, governed agent behavior.
- Partner with Controllership, SOX, and External Reporting to ensure agents are audit‑defensible and explainable.
- Establish standards for agent logging, execution traceability, and override controls.
- Establish standards for change management and release governance for close agents.
- Contribute to Finance Data Platform governance, including metadata, lineage, and access controls.
Benefits
- a 401(k) savings plan with employer contributions
- an employee stock purchase plan
- consideration for long-term incentive awards at Aon’s discretion
- medical, dental and vision insurance
- various types of leaves of absence
- paid time off, including 12 paid holidays throughout the calendar year
- 15 days of paid vacation per year
- paid sick leave as provided under state and local paid sick leave laws
- short-term disability and optional long-term disability
- health savings account
- health care and dependent care reimbursement accounts
- employee and dependent life insurance and supplemental life and AD&D insurance
- optional personal insurance policies
- adoption assistance
- tuition assistance
- commuter benefits
- an employee assistance program that includes free counseling sessions
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
