Senior Accountant - Fiduciary Accounting

Aon is seeking a Senior Fiduciary Accountant to join the North America Commercial Risk Controllership team. In this role, you will support the daily fiduciary accounting activities and month end processes.

The successful candidate will play an important role in supporting audit-ready documentation, timely issue resolution, and strong financial controls while building trusted relationships with Controllership, Treasury, Operations, IT, and other business partners.

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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

• Support accurate fiduciary accounting by preparing, reviewing, and analyzing account reconciliations in accordance with company policy, SOX requirements, and fiduciary accounting expectations.
• Investigate aged reconciling items and partner with stakeholders to drive timely resolution.
• Support weekly fiduciary cash true-up calculations by analyzing trial balance, receivable, payable, commission, fee, bank, and subledger activity to identify funding requirements.
• Monitor fiduciary suspense accounts, identify root causes of unmatched activity, and recommend actions to reduce recurring suspense items and manual journal entries.
• Prepare and review fiduciary journal entries, intercompany adjustments, and close-related accounting activity to support accurate financial reporting.
• Participate in the testing and documentation of assigned SOX controls, including evidence preparation, control performance documentation, deficiency follow-up, and remediation support.
• Prepare management reporting and analysis to communicate reconciliation status, suspense aging, funding needs, monthly interest receivable forecasts, process issues, and control observations.
• Contribute to process improvement, automation, and standard operating procedure initiatives.
• Maintain and update Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) memorandums for fiduciary accounting processes.

How this opportunity is different

At Aon, colleagues are encouraged to bring ideas forward, challenge the status quo, and help build practical solutions that improve how work gets done. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to a critical finance function while developing broad knowledge of fiduciary accounting, controls, systems, and cross-functional operations.

Skills and experience that will lead to success

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Experience with Microsoft Excel skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Preferred experience with fiduciary accounting.
• Location: Virtual

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 $80,000 - $92,000 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 Chicago, Illinois. 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.

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