Financial Systems Manager – Legal Industry, Elite 3E Focus

Financial Systems Manager – Legal Industry, Elite 3E Focus

NYC, Chicago, or D.C. – 2 days onsite, 3 days work from home

This position is focused on managing the Financial Systems, and a team of 5 direct reports. This position is with a large global law firm, who is in the process of upgrading Elite to Elite 3E – several of the modules have already been upgraded to 3E, so you'd be joining mid‑migration.

The responsibilities are split approximately 50/50 between management and hands‑on work. As such, we are looking for hands on managers, that have experience with Elite ideally, or Aderant would also work.

You'll have 1 supervisor, 2 senior analysts and 2 mid‑level analysts that report to you. So you do need to also have experience managing direct reports.

You'll be joining at an exciting time when there is a firm‑wide push to the cloud – there are a lot of exciting projects going on, and a lot of new hires to support this, which is all a function of the business having success that is enabling the growth.

• Manage team of analysts who oversee financial system operational responsibilities such as data integrity checking, month‑end processing, systems setups, and tier 1 and 2 financial system application support.
• Manage the troubleshooting and documentation of issues and their resolution; evaluating, designing, documenting, and prioritizing enhancement requests.
• Implement standards and best practices for supporting Financial Systems and related BI solutions.
• Support Finance staff in managing financial system data/report requests.
• Understand the relationship between existing financial system modules, integrations, and other related systems in order to maintain their integrity in a changing environment.
• Collaborate across Finance e areas to assess financial system application security, enhancement needs, and process transformation.
• Partner with Finance and IT on financial systems strategy and execution on a global basis.
• Vendor relationship management, including statements of work, consulting resource onboarding, invoice processing, etc.
• Prepare project budgets and provide reporting on budget vs. actual activity.
• Leverage project management experience to lead a variety of financial system initiatives, ensuring scope and budget are properly managed and that the business needs are met.

• 7+ years of experience with Financial Systems Management/Analysis
• 2+ years of management experience, and must have experience managing direct reports
• Must have at least 2 years of experience (more the better) managing financial systems in the legal industry, ideally with Elite or Elite 3E, but Aderant also works
• Must be proficient with SQL

• Experience working in global environments
• Experience integrating other legal tools to the financial systems, such as In Tapp