Law/Financial Applications Analyst at Sonoma Consulting in Chicago, IL

Company Description

Sonoma Consulting provides the highest quality service and support to our clients and consultants. Our clients range from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.

Job Description

• Accountable for ensuring financial applications meet the needs of the business. • Accountable for the evolution of financial applications to ensure the needs of the business continue to be met in the future. • Accountable for the prioritization and successful delivery of assigned projects working with the Global Financial Applications Manager. • Accountable for software support related to department’s customized or packaged financial applications. • Perform relevant telephone and desk side support to all staff on all financial applications supported by the Firm. • Responsible for multiple concurrent large and complex projects. • Maintain a high level of responsiveness to customer calls and inquiries. • As required, liaise between Firm management, sponsors, users and other IT personnel to communicate issues regarding overall operations status, operations strategy and plans. • Where appropriate, attend user groups independently or with senior managers. • Develop written and oral communications that clearly explain technical concepts using non-technical language; effectively communicate to management and users technology and process pros/cons, IT strategies and trade-offs. • Responsible for evaluation of new financial products/applications deemed to be appropriate for the Firm’s business. • Make recommendations to improve the use of all Firm desktop financial applications. • Comply with the IT Department’s change request system. • Ensure preventative maintenance in your field of expertise is regularly planned and implemented. • Contribute to financial applications user and systems needs analysis and requirements definition projects. • Engage appropriate constituencies for input into initiatives with wide-ranging impact. • Develop and review data design, interface, user, functional and technical design documentation. • Devise or modify procedures to solve complex problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time, and form of desired results. • Design, code, test, debug programs. • Ensure that the software development goals support the organizational and business goals. • Participate in the development, analysis and recommendation of vendors based on prioritized evaluation criteria. Technical support: • With guidance, make recommendations to improve the use of all Firm desktop financial applications. • Ensure preventative maintenance in your field of expertise is regularly planned and implemented. • Contribute to financial applications user and systems needs analysis and requirements definition projects. • Help to document and distribute input back to user constituencies for quality-assurance and content. • Develop and review data design, interface, user, functional and technical design documentation. • Under general direction, devise or modify procedures to solve complex problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time, and form of desired results.
• Help to ensure that the software development goals support the organizational and business goals. Business Relationship Management: • Work with the IT management and staff to integrate and continually evolve operations program/project management methods and practices. • Ensure a good proactive working relationship is maintained with others within the IT Department as well as with the users. • Ensure all downtime, regular preventative maintenance, security patch updates and software upgrades are communicated to all teams. • Effectively communicate information to next supervisory level through appropriate reporting mechanisms. • Develop written and oral communications that clearly explain technical concepts using non-technical language; proven ability to communicate with varying levels within the organization.

Qualifications

Qualifications and Experience: Law firm and accounting systems experience instead of adherent. • Bachelor’s degree in the field of Computer Science or Information Systems, or 6+ years experience working in a IT systems applications environment. • Proficient with Microsoft Office applications including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Visio. An in-depth knowledge of enterprise level Aderant Expert technology (front and back end) in order to understand and validate requests coming from both the Business and Technical staff. • 6+ years working with relevant client-server and web-compliant development tools and products. • Five+ years managing high-performance back-office and administrative support systems, including Aderant Expert, and other Finance & Accounting custom and packaged applications. • 6 years of IT industry experience, preferably in a professional partnership (e.g. law firm) environment. • Ability to conduct and direct research into IT issues and products as required. • Ability to perform general mathematical calculations for the purpose of creating business cases, budgets, etc.

Additional Information

TItle: Systems / appication / analyst / admin / architect

keyworkds: Aderant / Law firm accounting systems experience instead of adherent.