Financial Operations & Integration Leader

The Financial Operations & Integration Leader serves as the strategic finance and operations lead for Aon’s Marketing & Communications (Mar Comm) 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 events, project, and program expenditures.

The role 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.

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.

What the day will look like

• Directly manage a team of two colleagues, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, inclusion, growth, and high performance.
• Establish annual team goals and individual performance objectives aligned to Mar Comm, People Organization, and enterprise priorities.
• Lead performance management activities, including goal setting, performance reviews, ongoing feedback, talent assessment, and recognition of colleague contributions.
• Hold regular 1:1 meetings and quarterly 4x4 development conversations to support colleague growth, engagement, career progression, and development planning.
• Provide coaching, mentorship, and stretch opportunities that build financial acumen, business partnership skills, operational discipline, and future leadership readiness.
• Monitor workload distribution, clarify priorities, remove barriers, and ensure successful delivery of key planning, reporting, governance, and operational objectives.
• Support succession planning and building capability by identifying development opportunities, strengthening team knowledge, and encouraging continuous learning.

• Serve as a key integration point across enterprise stakeholders to ensure alignment on financial targets, strategic priorities, investments, operational activities, governance requirements, and execution plans.
• Coordinate planning, workforce investments, vendor engagements, organizational changes, and new initiatives across a broad stakeholder network.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration to support organizational effectiveness, resource optimization, financial transparency, and successful execution of strategic initiatives.
• Lead integration efforts for new programs, projects, technologies, and business processes, ensuring effective implementation, operational readiness, and clear ownership.
• Partner with business leaders and enterprise stakeholders to identify process improvements, governance enhancements, and operational efficiencies.
• Facilitate decision-making by aligning diverse stakeholder groups around common objectives, priorities, investment trade-offs, and execution timelines.
• Support enterprise-wide initiatives, organizational transformations, and operating model changes by ensuring appropriate financial, operational, and governance structures are in place.

• Lead the annual planning, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes for the Mar Comm and People Organization functions.
• 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 that support informed decision-making and resource allocation.

• Key liaison between Mar Comm and the People Org with the Finance function.
• Partner with functional leaders to ensure visibility into P&L performance, including SIB and non-salary, incentive, and benefits variances (NSIB).
• Provide analysis of actuals, forecasts, risks, opportunities, and year-end outlooks to strengthen transparency and…