Financial Systems Support Analyst

Financial Systems Support Analyst

Location: City , London Salary: From 32,000 to 35,000 per annum Negotiable Date posted: 11/04/2012 14:14 Job type:Permanent Company: Career Legal Ltd Contact: MartinMartin Snell Ref: Totaljobs/99650 Job ID: 53330308

Move into Finance Systems!

Our client is an international law firm with 21 offices across the globe and currently has over 1000 staff. The firm has won many awards over the years including International Law Firm of the Year.

They have an excellent benefits package that includes 25 days holiday, subsidised restaurant, generous pension, enhanced maternity & paternity pay and corporate sports club rates.

An opportunity has arisen for a Financial Systems Support Analyst to join them, reporting into the Financial Systems Manager. You would be the first point of contact for support issues logged, dealing with or correctly diagnosing and assigning to the relevant expert in that area within Systems or IT. You will also work on month end procedures and scheduled reporting, and development of the Aderant Expert system.

Responsibilities include:

Managing and dealing with support issues logged for the Financial Systems Team.

Second level support for the international Accounts Departments and other Aderant Expert users.

Query Aderant Expert database using SQL.Liaising with IT and Finance Departments.

Month-end procedures and routines, including time and billing, and general ledger close.

Liaising with the software supplier regarding support issues, both day to day and through upgrades.

Setting up new offices, mergers and lateral hires.

Testing and deploying new and future functionality within Aderant Expert. Testing application upgrades and checking functionality.

Aderant Expert generic importer from third party applications, ensuring tasks run as scheduled and fixing any issues.

Maintenance of the matter planning module, e.g. creating of phases and tasks via scripting.

Candidate Profile

Financial systems experience gained within a law firm environment or a person who has legal accounts or billing experience who wants a career change to systems.

In-depth knowledge of a legal PMS (Adera nt, Elite etc), some exposure to Whitehill and working knowledge of SQL.

Important Notice

It is Career Legals policy, as a matter of courtesy, to respond to all applications within three working days. However because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to respond to individual candidates. If we have not contacted you within three working days your application has been unsuccessful and your details have not been retained. Please apply for any other position that you may see in the future. Thank you.

Career Legal is a Recruitment Agency and is advertising this permanent vacancy on behalf of one of its Clients.