Financial Business Analytics Partner- Chicago

Financial Business Analytics Partner
- Chicago, IL

Do you have a Financial Planning and Analysis background and are you keen to pivot into a Data and Analytics business partnering role? Are you keen to deliver data-driven insights to our leaders to drive performance and support strategic decision making? If so, this may be the role for you!

This is a hybrid role working from our office in Chicago, IL

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.

Aon’s Centers for Innovation and Analytics in Dublin and Singapore are at the heart of delivering Aon’s Data & Analytics Services team’s mission to:

• Accelerate the rate of innovation through digital solutions to help better respond to clients’ evolving needs
• Provide foundational data and analytics capabilities in one place for 50,000 Aon colleagues and our global clients who use our risk and people solutions

Established in 2012, there are over 150 colleagues in Singapore’s Centre today including actuaries, software developers, data scientists, financial analysts and accountants. We are expanding rapidly and looking for dedicated individuals who can leverage emerging technologies and collaborate across Aon’s solution lines to help clients and colleagues make better, data-driven decisions today and tomorrow.

The successful applicant will be based in Chicago, joining the Growth Analytics team in Singapore as an extension of this dynamic, high-energy group. The team delivers data-driven insights that empower leadership to drive performance and support strategic decision-making.

The Business Analytics Partner role in the team acts as an analytics translator between our business leaders and technical D&A expertise, leveraging on data-driven insights to help our business leaders make more informed decisions around driving performance improvements and business process optimization across Aon.

This role extends beyond analytics and requires strategic collaboration with teams such as sales, product, technology, finance, and more.

• Partner with countries on delivery of analytical insights and embedment of the team’s suite of products
• Work with cross-functional teams to source large data sets, review and address data quality challenges, reconcile reports, apply business logic and analyse to validate results effectively and provide insightful analyses
• Management of initiatives to ensure delivery within timelines
• Work with local, regional and global teams to implement recommendations towards a positive and balanced outcomes
• Cultivate and sustain positive relationships with diverse teams to achieve collective goals and drive organizational success
• Manage and influence stakeholders’ expectations and decisions, and drive effective change management
• Articulate sophisticated concepts clearly to support senior management in data-driven decision-making
• Support in conceptualizing solutions, rolling out and testing products
• Collect end-user requests and translate them into business requirements for our development group

• Degree or equivalent experience in Business, Finance (Financial Planning and Analysis) with a of minimum 4-6 years of working experience in related areas
• Seeks to grow into a business analytics consultant; this is not under a career track of a data scientist
• Have experience in managing senior stakeholders and/or business partnering
• Ability to manage ambiguity such as
  • Analyzing complex and unclear situations to develop clear and actionable plans or decision making
  • Breaking down ambiguous problems into manageable components and identifying potential solutions
  • Comfortable making decisions with partial information and adjusting strategies as more data is obtained
• Demonstrate a growth mindset and willingness to learn proprietary conceptual models (such as cost allocation / activity-base…