Senior Financial Systems Analyst

King & Spalding is a leading global law firm with a commitment to excellence, innovation, and the seamless delivery of legal services. We harness innovative technology and exceptional talent to meet the complex needs of our clients in a fast-paced and dynamic legal landscape.

The Senior Financial Systems Analyst provides support for end-users, ongoing maintenance, and functional know-how. The role will be key in project work to provide technical and functional design, coding, testing, and implementation of new reports/software, along with modifications to existing reports/software. The Senior Financial Systems Analyst will provide application integration solutions to improve staff’s ability to efficiently use the financial systems. They will implement best practices for data access, report development, design, and support. The Senior Financial Systems Analyst will work within a project team to analyze, document, and communicate the user requirements enabled by the Finance technology solutions. The Senior Financial Systems Analyst will report to the Senior Financial Systems Manager.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Meet with stakeholders to define and analyze areas for process improvements
• Document needs and the proposed solution(s)
• Lead project team(s) and designated development person(s) to design and implement the solution
• Act as product manager for financial systems, ensuring that feedback from all customers is gathered and leveraged in the ongoing system enhancement process
• Assist in the management of outside vendors which support Finance initiatives, including outside consultants, product support personnel, trainers, etc.
• Collaborate with members of other teams, primarily within the IT organization, to resolve technical problems that may arise
• Handle multiple projects and priorities
• Gather input and implement solutions across the organization
• Develop process flow documentation
• Design improved business processes and supporting systems to advance Finance’s goals and objectives
• Create training documentation for both Finance and end users and conduct internal Finance training sessions as needed
• Responsible for planning and coordinating Finance team activities related to projects
• Develop project plans; coordination of resources; monitoring of project status; facilitating project meetings; ensuring that projects remain within their intended boundaries informing and following up with outside dependencies concerning their deliverables; providing concise project reports to various levels of firm personnel; and adhering to project budgets
• Develop test plans and lead user acceptance testing sessions
• Work with various groups and levels in the organization to define their financial reporting requirements in an effort to advance the Firm’s electronic distribution of reports/data
• Create detailed specifications for custom reports, inquiries and system modifications 
• Document requirements and design of custom reports, inquiries and forms for financial systems.  Manage the creation and testing of said reports, forms and inquiries. 
• Develop low-level custom reports, inquiries, and system modification
• Provide support for users of the finance applications within the firm
• Communicate Finance department needs with the IT department to ensure the Finance department hardware and software requirements are met efficiently and effectively
• Play a support role in financial system security set-up and maintenance (both front-office and back-office)
• Assist in the coordination with vendors to resolve financial application issues
• Lead finance system upgrades and maintenance
• Finance project manager for the implementation and upgrade of new and existing finance systems; including, but not limited to:
  • Participation in contract negotiations
  • Identification of missing/needed functionality
  • Identification of reporting needs
  • Validation of the integrity of test conversions and final conversion data
  • Implementation of training labs, including training the lab facilitators, developing lab materials
  • Ensuring connectivity between finance system and ancillary systems
  • Development and implementation of end user training which includes Finance, Secretarial, Attorney, and non-accounting voucher entry areas

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 5 – 8 years’ experience in a law firm or corporate environment preferred
• Minimum two years’ experience with relational databases, data validation, and report writing - SQL, Power BI, Business Objects, Crystal Reports or similar strongly preferred
• Proficient in Microsoft Office - Excel, Visio, Projects and/or Access
• Minimum t