Financial Operations & Integration Leader

Aon Corporation•Chicago, IL

10d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Financial Operations & Integration Leader serves as the strategic finance and operations lead for Aon’s Marketing & Communications (MarComm) and People Organization, acting as the primary liaison to Finance. Reporting to the Chief of Staff, this role leads a team responsible for financial planning, workforce investment governance, and oversight of event, project, and program expenditures. The position combines people leadership, financial stewardship, and cross-functional partnership to drive operational excellence, align investments with business priorities, and ensure adherence to enterprise standards. The successful candidate develops talent, fosters accountability, and collaborates with senior leaders to deliver strategic initiatives and organizational objectives. The role leads annual planning, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning; oversees Salary, Incentive and Benefits (SIB) workforce investments and hiring requests; provides P&L and variance analysis; and maintains cost-center structures, financial hierarchies, and organizational reporting frameworks. It also coordinates enterprise stakeholders, projects, programs, vendor engagements, organizational changes, and operational expenditures. The position directly manages a team of two colleagues. The salary range for this position, intended for U.S. applicants and based on a primary work location of Chicago, Illinois, is $110,000–$130,000 annually. Actual compensation may vary based on qualifications, internal equity, market data, and geographic location. The position is eligible for an annual discretionary incentive-plan bonus. Aon offers benefits to full-time and regular part-time colleagues, subject to applicable plan documents and policies.

Requirements

Significant experience in financial operations, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), workforce planning, business operations, or related finance leadership roles.
Demonstrated experience managing and developing colleagues, including performance reviews, goal setting, coaching, mentoring, and development planning.
Proven ability to partner with senior leaders in a complex, matrixed organization and translate financial insights into business actions.
Strong understanding of annual planning, forecasting, P&L management, variance analysis, cost-center governance, and organizational financial structures.
Experience supporting projects, programs, vendor engagements, organizational changes, and cross-functional initiatives.
Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, influence, problem-solving, and operational execution skills.

Responsibilities

Directly manage a team of two colleagues and foster accountability, collaboration, inclusion, growth, and high performance.
Establish annual team goals and individual performance objectives aligned with MarComm, People Organization, and enterprise priorities.
Lead performance management, including goal setting, performance reviews, ongoing feedback, talent assessment, and recognition.
Hold regular one-on-one meetings and quarterly 4x4 development conversations to support colleague growth, engagement, career progression, and development planning.
Coach and mentor colleagues and provide stretch opportunities to build financial acumen, business partnership skills, operational discipline, and leadership readiness.
Monitor workload distribution, clarify priorities, remove barriers, and support delivery of planning, reporting, governance, and operational objectives.
Support succession planning, capability building, and continuous learning.
Integrate enterprise stakeholders around financial targets, strategic priorities, investments, operational activities, governance requirements, and execution plans.
Coordinate planning, workforce investments, vendor engagements, organizational changes, and new initiatives across stakeholders.
Drive cross-functional collaboration to support organizational effectiveness, resource optimization, financial transparency, and strategic execution.
Lead integration of new programs, projects, technologies, and business processes, ensuring implementation, operational readiness, and clear ownership.
Partner with business leaders and enterprise stakeholders to identify process improvements, governance enhancements, and operational efficiencies.
Facilitate decisions by aligning stakeholders on objectives, priorities, investment trade-offs, and execution timelines.
Support enterprise initiatives, organizational transformations, and operating model changes by ensuring appropriate financial, operational, and governance structures.
Lead annual planning, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning for MarComm and the People Organization.
Oversee governance and review of Salary, Incentive and Benefits (SIB) talent investments and hire requests, ensuring alignment with business cases, organizational priorities, and approved plans.
Partner with functional leaders to evaluate workforce needs, investment impacts, financial trade-offs, and prioritization decisions.
Develop financial models, planning inputs, and operating reviews to support decision-making and resource allocation.
Serve as the key liaison between MarComm and the People Organization and the Finance function.
Partner with functional leaders to provide visibility into P&L performance, including SIB and non-salary, incentive, and benefits (NSIB) variances.
Analyze actuals, forecasts, risks, opportunities, and year-end outlooks to strengthen transparency and accountability.
Own governance and maintenance of cost-center structures, financial hierarchies, and organizational reporting frameworks.
Ensure financial structures align with changing functional structures, operating models, organizational redesigns, and new initiatives.
Oversee financial governance for projects, programs, vendor engagements, and operational expenditures, including budget management and investment prioritization.