Finance Manager – Benefits FP&A - Virtual

Alight Solutions Ltd; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 108,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement plan with matching

Continuing education opportunities

Job summary

Alight Solutions Ltd is seeking a Finance Manager to serve as a trusted partner to the Benefits FP&A function. You will analyze actuals, budgets, and forecasts, delivering actionable insights and recommendations to leadership. The role emphasizes automation, standardized processes, and advanced analytics to drive efficiency and strategic decision-making.

Reporting to the Finance Director, you will collaborate across Finance and the business to support the financial plan, with limited travel (<5%). The position combines strategic thinking with hands-on analysis in a dynamic global organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 5-8 years of progressive finance experience, with FP&A and business partnership experience preferred.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint; Workday and Adaptive Insights experience required.
• Financial acumen with attention to quality, accuracy, and controls.
• Proven ability to partner with leaders, communicate insights clearly, and support decision-making in a complex environment.
• Demonstrated interest in automation, process transformation, and modernization within finance.
• Experience supporting analysts, projects, or cross-functional workstreams preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a finance partner to business and finance leadership, translating financial performance into actionable insights and recommendations.
• Perform analysis across actuals, budget, forecast, and prior year, delivering clear insights on key drivers, trends, and risks.
• Leverage advanced analytics and AI-enabled tools to enhance forecasting, identify risks, and support pro-active decision-making.
• Prepare and present financial materials for leadership forums, articulating financial implications, trade-offs, and recommendations.
• Support Benefits FP&A planning processes, including long-range planning, budgeting, forecasting, scenario modeling and staffing operations
• Contribute to automation and FP&A process transformation efforts to improve efficiency, consistency, data quality, and insight velocity.
• Provide guidance and support to analysts and cross-functional partners, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and automation-first thinking.
• Build partnering working relationships with business finance leaders and their teams.
• Support ad hoc and strategic analyses in support of business and finance initiatives.

Skills

Advanced Excel

PowerPoint

Workday

Adaptive Insights

Financial analysis

Cross-functional partnership

Automation interest

Analyst support

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Workday

Adaptive Insights

Job description

Our Story

At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. Alight embraces values that come directly from our people – purposeful, human, united and growth-minded – reflecting our inclusive culture and promise that our clients expect. We are passionate about connecting purpose with impact. Alight empowers clients to build a healthier and more financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, navigation, and absence management.

Our Benefits

With a comprehensive total rewards package, Alight offers programs and plans that support your mind, body, wallet, and life. Benefits include health, dental and vision coverages starting Day One. Additionally, Alight colleagues enjoy wellbeing programs, retirement plans with contribution matching, generous time off, parental leave, continuing education, and career growth opportunities – all within a thriving global organization.

Our Story

At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. Alight embraces values that come directly from our people – purposeful, human, united and growth-minded – reflecting our inclusive culture and promise that our clients expect. We are passionate about connecting purpose with impact. Alight empowers clients to build a healthier and more financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, navigation, and absence management.

Our Benefits

With a comprehensive total rewards package, Alight offers programs and plans that support your mind, body, wallet, and life. Benefits include health, dental and vision coverages starting Day One. Additionally, Alight colleagues enjoy wellbeing programs, retirement plans with contribution matching, generous time off, parental leave, continuing education, and career growth opportunities – all within a thriving global organization.

Flexible Working

So that you can be your best at work and home, we consider flexible working arrangements wherever possible. Alight has been a leader in the flexible workspace and “Top 100 Company for Remote Jobs” 6 years in a row.

Great Place to Work

Thanks to the work of every colleague, Alight has received multiple awards of recognition including “Great Place to Work” for the past 7 years and Fortune’s “Best Companies to Work For.”

Going beyond traditional FP&A, this role will support the continued evolution of Benefits FP&A through increased automation, advanced analytics, standardized and scalable processes, and forward-looking decision support. This role serves as a finance partner to business and finance leaders, with responsibility for financial reporting, forecasting, analysis, and insight generation for the Benefits business. Reporting to the Finance Director, with close ties to Corporate FP&A, this Manager-level role partners across Finance and the business to support disciplined execution of the financial plan, drive operational excellence, and advance automation and analytics capabilities across Finance.

The Finance Manager is expected to operate with strong ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to influence decisions through clear analysis and business partnership. Less than 5% travel is expected.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a finance partner to business and finance leadership, translating financial performance into actionable insights and recommendations.
• Perform analysis across actuals, budget, forecast, and prior year, delivering clear insights on key drivers, trends, and risks.
• Leverage advanced analytics and AI-enabled tools to enhance forecasting, identify risks, and support pro-active decision-making.
• Prepare and present financial materials for leadership forums, articulating financial implications, trade-offs, and recommendations.
• Support Benefits FP&A planning processes, including long-range planning, budgeting, forecasting, scenario modeling and staffing operations
• Contribute to automation and FP&A process transformation efforts to improve efficiency, consistency, data quality, and insight velocity.
• Provide guidance and support to analysts and cross-functional partners, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and automation-first thinking.
• Build partnering working relationships with business finance leaders and their teams.
• Support ad hoc and strategic analyses in support of business and finance initiatives.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 5-8 years of progressive finance experience, with FP&A and business partnership experience preferred
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint; Workday and Adaptive Insights experience required
• Financial acumen with attention to quality, accuracy, and controls.
• Proven ability to partner with leaders, communicate insights clearly, and support decision-making in a complex environment
• Demonstrated interest in automation, process transformation, and modernization within finance
• Experience supporting analysts, projects, or cross-functional workstreams preferred

Application and Interview

By applying for a position with Alight, you understand that, should you be made an offer, it will be contingent on your undergoing and successfully completing a background check consistent with Alight’s employment policies. Background checks may include some or all the following based on the nature of the position: SSN/SIN validation, education verification, employment verification, and criminal check, search against global sanctions and government watch lists, credit check, and/or drug test. You will be notified during the hiring process which checks are required by the position.

Alight requires all virtual interviews to be conducted on video. Please be aware that Alight is a camera-on culture and may require occasional travel to one of our physical office locations.

Our commitment to Inclusion

We celebrate differences and believe in fostering an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported. We know that diverse teams are stronger, more innovative, and more successful.

At Alight, we welcome and embrace all individuals, regardless of their background, and are dedicated to creating a culture that enables every employee to thrive. Join us in building a brighter, more inclusive future.

As part of this commitment, Alight will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact [e-mail].

Equal Opportunity Policy Statement

Alight is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against anyone based on sex, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital or domestic partner status, citizenship, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics or conduct covered by federal, state, or local law. In addition, we take affirmative action to employ disabled persons, disabled veterans, and other covered veterans.

Alight provides reasonable accommodations to the known limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants for employment with disabilities and sincerely held religious beliefs, practices and observances, unless doing so would result in undue hardship. Applicants for employment may request reasonable accommodations/modifications by contacting their recruiter.

Authorization to work in the Employing Country

Applicants for employment in the country in which they are applying (Employing Country) must have work authorization that does not, now or in the future, require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the Employing Country and with Alight.

Note, this job description does not restrict management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.

Salary Pay Range

Minimum :

108,000.00 USD

Maximum :

125,000.00 USD

Pay Transparency Statement: Alight considers a variety of factors in determining whether to extend an offer of employment and in setting the appropriate compensation level, including, but not limited to, a candidate’s experience, education, certification/credentials, market data, internal equity, and geography. Alight makes these decisions on an individualized, non-discriminatory basis. Bonus and/or incentive eligibility are determined by role and level. Alight also offers a comprehensive benefits package; for specific details on our benefits package, please visit: Wellbeing and Benefits Selector Page - Alight

DISCLAIMER:

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.

Alight Solutions provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition, veteran, marital, parental, citizenship, or domestic partner status, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state or local law. Alight Solutions is committed to a diverse workforce and is an affirmative action employer.