Senior Manager, Finance Systems

About the role

Join Aon’s Digital Finance transformation as a Senior Manager, Finance Systems, where you’ll play a key role in shaping the future of finance. In this highly visible position, you’ll work at the intersection of finance, data, and technology — leading the modernization of financial systems and leveraging platforms like Databricks, Workday, TM1 and Power BI to deliver scalable solutions, real-time insights, and advanced analytics. This is a unique opportunity to drive innovation, enable AI-powered decision-making, and partner across the business to transform planning, forecasting, and reporting at scale.

What The Day Will Look Like

• Lead digital transformation efforts across financial systems, driving automation and scalable architecture.
• Partner with Finance, IT, and Business stakeholders to define requirements, deliver solutions, and ensure alignment with enterprise goals.
• Architect and maintain complex, multi-dimensional financial data models that support dynamic planning, forecasting, and scenario analysis
• Leverage Databricks, Snowflake and other AI platforms to manage large-scale financial data and enable predictive analytics and machine learning.
• Develop and maintain interactive dashboards using Power BI or similar tools to deliver real-time insights.
• Conduct systems analysis to identify inefficiencies and implement process improvements.
• Manage reconciliation processes between Workday, IBM Planning Analytics (TM1), and other financial subsystems, ensuring data accuracy and consistency.
• Maintain documentation and enforce data governance and internal control standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or related field; Master’s or CPA preferred.
• Expertise in financial systems, including Workday and IBM Planning Analytics (TM1).
• Strong proficiency in data modeling and dashboarding tools (e.g., SQL, Python, Power BI, Anaplan, Tableau).
• Proven experience with Databricks, Snowflake, or similar AI/data platforms.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Understanding of financial processes (e.g., budgeting, forecasting, general ledger).

Pay

$130,000 - $160,000 annually, plus eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual salary varies based on education, experience, skills, abilities, internal equity, market data, and geographic location. The range reflected is based on a primary work location of Chicago, Illinois.

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, 15 days of paid vacation per year, and paid sick leave as provided under state and local 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 with free counseling sessions