Finance Manager, North America

Aon Corporation is seeking a Finance Manager, North America based in Chicago, IL (onsite). In this role, you will lead planning and forecasting for North America AGRC while partnering with leadership to drive decision support, strengthen governance, and improve how financial processes run across the organization.

Aligned to Finance priorities, the position focuses on revenue and allocation management, management reporting, and actionable insights that help leaders evaluate performance, growth investments, and workforce changes. The salary range for U.S. applicants is $110,000 - $125,000 annually.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the annual operating plan, periodic forecasting, and long-range planning processes for North America AGRC.
• Build revenue, salary, operating expense, and operating income outlooks using current performance, business assumptions, pipeline activity, hiring plans, and operating drivers.
• Partner with AGRC leaders to assess forecast risks and opportunities, then convert them into concrete operating actions.
• Maintain clear “bridges” connecting actual results, the operating plan, forecasts, and prior-year performance.
• Evaluate the timing and financial impact of growth investments, replacement hiring, attrition, and other workforce changes.
• Ensure forecast assumptions are grounded in appropriate business drivers and consistently reflected within financial systems and management reporting.
• Act as a trusted finance partner to North America AGRC leadership and the broader Commercial Risk finance organization.
• Deliver financial insight across business performance, growth priorities, investments, productivity, and resource allocation decisions.
• Create business cases for proposed investments, including expected revenue, cost, utilization, timing, payback, and margin implications.
• Coordinate with regional, practice, controllership, workforce planning, and global finance teams on cross-organizational and cross-geographic topics.
• Translate complex financial topics into concise, decision-oriented recommendations for senior leadership.
• Lead monthly and quarterly financial reviews covering revenue, compensation, operating expenses, margin, and operating income performance.
• Prepare management reporting and presentation materials for AGRC and Commercial Risk leadership, including explanations of material variances and emerging trends.
• Develop and maintain relevant financial and operational metrics such as revenue growth, margin, revenue-to-salary relationships, headcount, hiring progress, and investment performance.
• Improve clarity, consistency, and efficiency of financial reporting while keeping enough detail for business decision-making.
• Support QBRs, forecast reviews, planning reviews, and other leadership forums.
• Build a detailed understanding of AGRC’s revenue model, including directly billed services, embedded services within broader client arrangements, intercompany activity, and regional and practice allocations.
• Partner with Controllership and business teams to support accurate revenue and expense recognition.
• Review and coordinate recurring or complex revenue and expense allocations, including corporate, national, regional, intercompany, and cross-border activity.
• Analyze how allocation methodologies impact regional and practice results and recommend improvements when appropriate.
• Support review and approval of accruals, reclasses, and other financial entries affecting AGRC, maintaining documentation and appropriate controls.
• Strengthen forecasting, reporting, allocation, and planning through better standardization, documentation, and automation.
• Improve traceability and quality of assumptions, adjustments, and management reporting.
• Coordinate with 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 effort while preserving business insight and flexibility required in a consulting environment.

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.
• 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 close, forecast, and planning deadlines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing materials for senior leadership.
• High degree of judgment, ownership, curiosity, and attention to detail.

Technologies

• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Workday
• TM1
• Adaptive Planning
• Power BI

Benefits

• 401(k) savings plan with employer contributions
• 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
• Employee assistance program that includes free counseling sessions

Preferred

• 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.

Pay Transparency

• The salary range for this position (intended for U.S. applicants) is $110,000 - $125,000 annually.
• This position is eligible to participate in one of Aon’s annual incentive plans to receive an annual discretionary bonus in addition to base salary.