Finance Systems Analyst

Full time, 2 days a week in office

Central London

£50,000 – £60,000 per annum

SystemsAccountants are working with a leading legal organisation based in London to source a Finance Systems Analyst to support the technology solutions across the firm. This role will involve providing quality expert financial systems support to end users, resolving technical issues, proactively assisting in training and user education, and providing project support for solution implementations and rollouts. This role will be primarily focusing on their Elite 3E system, reporting to the Finance Systems Manager within the Finance team.

Key responsibilities

• Provide a high quality first line support service, responding to firm wide queries regarding our finance systems such as Elite 3E, Chrome River, Arcs 2G and Power BI.
• Responsibility for regular daily, weekly, monthly reporting and data maintenance.
• Creating and running reports in response to ad-hoc requests for information.
• Provide ad-hoc training to colleagues, to increase skills and awareness in using the finance systems tools available to them.
• Assisting with finance / firm projects as required.

Person Specification

•  A strong working knowledge of Elite 3E (or similar legal practice management system), preferably in a first line support role.
• A clear understanding of the underlying financial processes undertaken in a professional services firm.
• Experienced in using SQL to write, extract, transform and present data for reporting purposes, or have a willingness to learn to do so.
• Strong Excel skills for ad-hoc report presentation.
• A conscientious and methodical person with excellent attention to detail.
• Strong organisational skills, capability of managing conflicting priorities & deadlines, working under pressure when necessary.
• A pro-active outlook with demonstrable experience of using your initiative.
• A client focussed approach (internal clients) with excellent communication skills.
• The ability to diagnose and deal with complex problems.

Systems experience

• Experience of using any legal practice management system.
• Experience of advanced MS Excel (pivot tables, vlookups etc).
• Experience of Chrome River or similar expense capture system.
• Ideally some experience of writing SQL for reporting.
• Ideally some experience of using IntApp Time or other time recording software.
• Ideally some experience of using MiniSoft ARCS 2G.

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