Introduction At Gallagher Benefit Services, you’re a trusted partner to organizations navigating some of their most key people decisions. We help clients build better workplaces, where people feel supported, empowered, and inspired to thrive. Whether it’s shaping benefit strategies, designing wellbeing programs, or advising on workforce challenges, the work you do here creates meaningful change for businesses and the people who power them.

We’re a community of bold explorers, trusted experts, and compassionate partners; working side by side to solve problems, and shape the future of work. Here, curiosity is encouraged, collaboration is second nature, and your ideas have room to grow.

If you’re looking for a place where your contribution matters and where you can help build a better world of work; think of Gallagher.

We believe that every candidate brings something special to the table, including you We currently have an existing vacancy within our organization, so, even if you feel that you’re close but not an exact match, we encourage you to apply.

Overview The Enterprise Application Owner, Finance Systems serves as the strategic and operational leader responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of the organization’s financial application ecosystem. This role ensures finance platforms operate as systems of record for core financial processes, including general ledger, financial planning and analysis (FP&A;), consolidation, reporting, and regulatory compliance.

The Application Owner is accountable for maintaining data integrity, financial controls, and system reliability while enabling scalable, standardized finance capabilities across the organization. Acting as the primary liaison between Finance, Controllership, and Technology teams,



this role aligns system capabilities with business objectives, drives process optimization, supports audit and SOX compliance requirements, and ensures timely, accurate financial reporting.

In addition, the Application Owner leads the roadmap for enhancements, integrations, and automation across finance systems, focusing on improving close cycles, enhancing reporting insights, and increasing operational efficiency. This person is responsible for vendor management, platform governance, and user adoption, ensuring the finance application landscape evolves in line with organizational growth, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.

How you'll make an impact Strategic Vision and Roadmap Leadership

Own the Vision: Define, communicate, and secure executive alignment for application’s long-term strategic vision (3-5 years), ensuring it directly supports organizational objectives and key business capabilities.

Roadmap Management: Develop and maintain the actionable Application Roadmap, balancing new feature development, major upgrades, technical debt reduction, and eventual retirement or replacement planning.

Business Partnership: Serve as the primary liaison to designate Business Process Owners, translating business needs, regulatory changes, and pain points into prioritized, clear, and detailed functional requirements.

Value Rationalization:



Continuously measure and report on the application Business Value and Return on Investment

Prioritization and Financial Accountability

Demand Governance: Lead the Intake and Prioritization process for all change requests, new features, and bug fixes, arbitrating between competing business demands to ensure IT resources are focused on the highest-value initiatives.

Financial Management: Own the Total Cost of Ownership, managing the annual operating and capital budgets for the application, including licensing, maintenance, hosting, and development

Vendor Management: Manage key relationships with application software vendors, overseeing contract negotiations, license compliance, and service delivery performance

Delivery and Operational Oversight

Delivery Accountability: Be ultimately responsible for the successful delivery of all major projects and features defined in the roadmap, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and to required quality standards.

Operational Health: Collaborate closely with IT Operations to monitor the application’s performance, availability, and reliability (SLAs), driving root cause analysis and implementing long-term solutions for recurring operational issues.

System Integrity: Ensure the application architecture adheres to enterprise standards and manage the process of keeping the application on a current, supported version to mitigate technical risk and security vulnerabilities.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Data Stewardship: Act as or closely supports the designated Data Steward, ensuring the application adheres to data governance policies, maintaining data quality, integrity, and compliance within r

📌 Financial Systems Enterprise Application Owner (Toronto)
🏢 Arthur J. Gallagher (AJG
📍 Toronto