Job Description

Chief Financial Officer, Reinsurance

Role Overview

The Chief Financial Officer, Reinsurance will serve as the senior finance partner to Aon's Reinsurance leadership team, with full accountability for financial strategy, performance management, capital allocation, and decision support across the global Reinsurance business. This role is critical to driving disciplined growth, margin expansion, and returns, while ensuring rigorous financial governance in a complex, global, and marketsensitive business.

Reporting to the Group Chief Financial Officer, the CFO, Reinsurance will bring strong strategic judgment, deep financial acumen, and executive presence. The role requires a leader who can operate at both altitude and detail-translating market dynamics, portfolio decisions, and capital deployment into clear, actionable financial insights for senior leadership and the Board.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Finance & Decision Support

• Act as the primary finance advisor to the Global Reinsurance leadership team, providing clear, decisionoriented insights on growth, profitability, and capital deployment.
• Lead financial input into the Reinsurance operating plan and longrange strategic planning, ensuring alignment with enterprise objectives and return thresholds.
• Evaluate strategic initiatives, including organic investments, talent deployment, pricing and portfolio mix, and M&A, with a focus on ROI, ROIC, and value creation.
• Provide forwardlooking analysis on market cycles (hard, soft, and transitional markets), pricing trends, capacity dynamics, and client segment profitability.

Performance Management & Analytics

• Own financial performance management for the Reinsurance business, including monthly results, forecasts, and variance analysis.
• Establish and refine leading and lagging KPIs that predict performance and enable early course correction.
• Drive deeper portfoliolevel analytics across products, geographies, client segments, and capital solutions.
• Translate complex financial data into concise, executiveready materials for senior management and the Board.

Capital Allocation & Financial Governance

• Partner with Corporate Planning, Treasury, and Controllership on capital allocation decisions, including investment prioritization, expense discipline, and balance sheet considerations.
• Ensure strong financial controls, governance, and compliance across the Reinsurance finance organization.
• Support disciplined execution against approved business cases, with clear accountability and transparency on delivery versus plan.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Lead and develop a highperforming Reinsurance finance team, fostering strong engagement, accountability, and talent development.
• Partner closely with Regional CFOs, Solution Line finance leaders, Strategy, ABS, and other enterprise functions to ensure consistency of data, insights, and execution.
• Serve as a trusted thought partner to senior leaders, balancing challenge and support in a matrixed organization.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive finance leadership experience in complex, global organizations.
• Strong background in strategic finance, FP&A, performance management, and capital allocation.
• Demonstrated experience supporting senior business leaders in marketdriven, cyclical, or financial services environments; experience in insurance, reinsurance, or capital markets is strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to lead teams, influence across a matrix, and operate effectively at the executive and Board level.
• Deep financial modeling and analytical expertise, including ROI/ROIC analysis, valuation, and scenario planning.
• Strong working knowledge of accounting, cash management, tax, and financial controls.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field; MBA, CFA, or equivalent advanced degree preferred.

Critical Leadership Capabilities

• Executive Presence & Judgment: Clear, confident communicator with the ability to distill complexity into actionable insight and influence senior stakeholders.
• Strategic Agility: Ability to connect financial outcomes to business strategy, market dynamics, and longterm value creation.
• Operational Discipline: Strong bias toward execution, accountability, and delivery against commitments.
• Collaborative Leadership: Trusted partner who builds strong relationships and leads effectively in a global, matrixed environment.
• Integrity & Accountability: Highest standards of professionalism, rigor, and ethical conduct.

Why This Role Matters

The CFO, Reinsurance will play a pivotal role in shaping the financial direction of one of Aon's most strategically important businesses. This role sits at the intersection of market cycles, capital decisions, and leadership judgment-requiring a finance leader who can both challenge and enable the business to deliver sustained, highquality performance.

How we support our colleagues

In addition to our comprehensive benefits package, we encourage an inclusive workforce. Our agile environment allows you to manage your wellbeing and work/life balance, ensuring you can be your best self at Aon. All colleagues enjoy two "Global Wellbeing Days" each year to focus on themselves. We also offer a variety of workingstyle solutions for our colleagues.

Our continuous learning culture inspires and equips you to learn, share, and grow - helping you achieve your fullest potential. As a result, at Aon, you are more connected, more relevant, and more valued.

Aon values an innovative and inclusive workplace where all colleagues feel empowered to be their authentic selves. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Aon provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics. People with criminal histories are encouraged to apply.

If you require accommodations during the application or interview process, please email ReasonableAccommodations@Aon.com or speak with your recruiter.

Aon is not accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this role.

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties at any time.

Salary Range: The salary range for this position is $275,000 - $350,000 annually.

Actual salary will vary based on education, experience, skills, abilities, internal equity, and geographic location.

Incentives: This role is eligible to participate in Aon's annual incentive program.

Benefits

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. This role does not accrue vacation. Rather, this role is eligible to take paid time off at the discretion of the employee and management in accordance with company policy and practices. Various other types of leaves of absence; 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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