Law/Financial Applications Analyst

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

•    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 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.

TItle: Systems / appication / analyst / admin / architect

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