Remote FP&A Finance Manager — Automation & Insights

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

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.