Director, AI Lead - Finance Agents Engineering (Financial Close & Operations)

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

Architect and deploy finance agents that:

• Orchestrate intercompany workflows, reconciliations, and exception management

• Perform close diagnostics, anomaly detection, and preparer‑reviewer support

• Enforce SOX‑aligned workflows, approvals, and evidence capture

• Design agentic workflows integrated with Workday, Databricks, Accounting Center, and reporting tools

• Translate close policies and accounting logic into executable, governed agent behavior

• Partner with Controllership, SOX, and External Reporting to ensure agents are audit‑defensible and explainable

• Establish standards for:

  • Agent logging, execution traceability, and override controls
  • Change management and release governance for close agents

• Contribute to Finance Data Platform governance, including metadata, lineage, and access controls

How this opportunity is different

This is your unique opportunity to lead the design, build, and deployment of AI‑enabled finance agents and agentic workflows that automate and govern core close activities, including intercompany processing, reconciliations, variance diagnostics, and SOX‑aligned controls. This role owns the agent layer of the close, ensuring speed, integrity, and audit readiness.

Skills and experience that will lead to success

• 10+ years across Controllership, Finance Transformation, or Finance Technology

• Demonstrated experience deploying automation, bots, or agents in close or accounting environments

• Strong understanding of SOX, control frameworks, and audit expectations

• Hands‑on exposure to modern data platforms (e.g., Databricks, cloud lakehouse architectures)

• Ability to bridge accounting judgment, technology, and governance

For positions in San Francisco and Los Angeles, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction record in accordance with local Fair Chance ordinances. Aon is not accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this position. If you are a search firm, you will not be compensated in any way for your submission of a candidate, even if Aon hires that candidate. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Pay Transparency Laws

The salary range for this position (intended for U.S. applicants) is $165,000 - $225,000 annually. The actual salary will vary based on applicant’s education, experience, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data. The salary may also be adjusted based on applicant’s geographic location. The salary range reflected is based on a primary work location of New York, New York. The actual salary may vary for applicants in a different geographic location. 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. The amount of any bonus varies and is subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable incentive plan.

Aon offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and regular part-time colleagues, including, but not limited to: 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, and an employee assistance program that includes free counseling sessions. Eligibility for benefits is governed by the applicable plan documents and policies. #LI-SP1 #LI-HYBRID 2579086