Senior Accountant - Fiduciary Accounting
About The Position
Aon is seeking a Senior Fiduciary Accountant to join the North America Commercial Risk Controllership team. In this role, you will support the daily fiduciary accounting activities and month end processes. The successful candidate will play an important role in supporting audit-ready documentation, timely issue resolution, and strong financial controls while building trusted relationships with Controllership, Treasury, Operations, IT, and other business partners. 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- Experience with Microsoft Excel skills.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
Nice To Haves
- Preferred experience with fiduciary accounting.
Responsibilities
- Support accurate fiduciary accounting by preparing, reviewing, and analyzing account reconciliations in accordance with company policy, SOX requirements, and fiduciary accounting expectations.
- Investigate aged reconciling items and partner with stakeholders to drive timely resolution.
- Support weekly fiduciary cash true-up calculations by analyzing trial balance, receivable, payable, commission, fee, bank, and subledger activity to identify funding requirements.
- Monitor fiduciary suspense accounts, identify root causes of unmatched activity, and recommend actions to reduce recurring suspense items and manual journal entries.
- Prepare and review fiduciary journal entries, intercompany adjustments, and close-related accounting activity to support accurate financial reporting.
- Participate in the testing and documentation of assigned SOX controls, including evidence preparation, control performance documentation, deficiency follow-up, and remediation support.
- Prepare management reporting and analysis to communicate reconciliation status, suspense aging, funding needs, monthly interest receivable forecasts, process issues, and control observations.
- Contribute to process improvement, automation, and standard operating procedure initiatives.
- Maintain and update Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) memorandums for fiduciary accounting processes.
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
Senior
