Financial Systems Business Analyst-Billing/AR/Collections

New York, NY
Exempt
Hours: Monday-Friday, 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM 

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Reporting to the Financial Systems Manager, the Financial Systems Business Analyst will be the subject matter expert for Billing, Accounts Receivable and Collections in Finance.  They will be responsible for managing projects involving those functional areas including implementations, upgrades, customizations, reports, inquiries and other development within finance technology.  Additionally, they will be the first point of contact for supporting these areas of Finance and assisting with troubleshooting issues that arise.

The primary responsibilities include:

• Work with users to define the business case for future developments and customizations and create specification documentation for vetted development for Billing, Accounts Receivable & Collections and other assigned areas of finance
• Liaise with Finance and IS to support, develop and implement tools for dissemination of Finance information to the firm via reports, inquiries and dashboards
• Proactively identify opportunities for new or different ways to utilize our financial systems’ functionality and improve business processes and procedures and recommend best practices
• Coordinate testing of newly developed customizations Billing, Accounts Receivable & Collections
• Provide on-going support to the users of all finance systems
• Report, track and resolve application problems and technical issues with all finance systems vendors
• Manage, plan and execute global training related tasks for Billing, Accounts Receivable & Collections
• Act as a liaison between Financial Systems, Finance and Thomson Elite in providing support and tracking escalated application and/or data problems on the Elite Enterprise financial system
• Assist with software upgrades for all financial systems
• Other responsibilities and projects as assigned from time-to-time 

Education and Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree is desirable with 8+ years relevant experience ideally obtained in a law-firm environment
• Exemplary project management skills
• Extensive knowledge of the features, functionality and operations of Law Firm Finance Technology, specifically Billing, Accounts Receivable & Collections, including Elite Enterprise, 3E and/or Aderant, time capture products, Collections products & document management
• Strong accounting skills including those related to international operations and intercompany transactions
• Strong SQL & SRSS skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience in developing best practices
• Experience in updating / creating solutions in Elite Design Gallery