Finance Systems Analyst

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Job Title

Finance Systems Analyst

Office Location

London

Department

Finance Systems Team

Finance Systems in liaison with Technology supports the Finance teams world-wide and provides a reporting facility both for Central Management and to partners. The team currently consists of the Finance Systems Manager with Analysts based in London and Hong Kong a Senior Finance Systems Manager with Analysts based in the US and a Finance Systems Manager Product Owner based in London. This is a global team reporting in the Global Head of Finance Systems.

The Finance Systems team (FST) provides first line technical support for all computer systems used by the Finance staff of Hogan Lovells worldwide. This currently includes the following systems:

• Elite 3E.

• Intapp time entry.

• Emburse Enterprise Expense and Invoice.

• OneStream Budgeting and GL reporting.

• Paperless Billing (Nth Degree).

• Edicom Einvoicing.

• eBillinghub delivery of e-billing.

Finance systems also support / manage the BI reporting solution in partnership with the Technology team. This solution is currently based on Analysis Services (MDX / DAX) surfaced primarily using SSRS reports and Vendor developed dashboards from Big Square / Foundation Finance.

In addition to support the department plays an active role in the development and enhancement of our finance systems. This includes application configuration and code development across a range of platforms (SQL MDX / DAX). The department works closely with the Technology team to test and deploy these changes through to production.

Working Hours

35 hours per week 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required. We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns. Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the officeplease contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss further.

Role Overview

This position will report to the Product Owner who is responsible for managing the prioritisation of software development for the finance application portfolio for the 3E Finance system and other systems used by the Finance department as well as surrounding integrations. The team will be responsible for delivering change to systems such as system upgrades.

The Development team follows agile methodology will work with the IT Finance Applications (ITFA) Development team the business and key stakeholders to understand objectives and successfully translate requirements for the Development team to meet the desired objectives.

The team is focused on providing the best service to financial users on an international scale and is eager to onboard an accomplished Financial Systems Analyst. The ideal candidate for this role will have previous experience of supporting 3e and related systems and some experience of Software Development Life Cycle. Additionally strong analytical and technical abilities and will appreciate working in a fast-paced but very enjoyable environment where collaboration and teamwork are encouraged. Our people are the key to our success which is why we seek to recruit and retain the most talented individuals.

In this role you will have opportunity to interact with a wide range of people including finance and other business services departments lawyers partners and senior management.

Key Responsibilities

Specific duties or responsibilities may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changes in personnel and management structure staff location or services. All members of the firm participate in our Responsible Business program.

Systems Analysis and Support

• Analyse existing finance systems (ERP budgeting forecasting reporting tools) to identify gaps inefficiencies and improvement opportunities.

• Translate finance and business requirements into functional system specifications.

• Support day-to-day system issues troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.

• Ensure data integrity accuracy and consistency across finance systems.

System Upgrades and Enhancements

• Support finance system upgrades patches and version releases.

• Support coordination of testing (unit integration UAT) for system enhancements and upgrades.

• Assess impact of upgrades on finance processes controls and reporting.

• Partner with IT and vendors to ensure smooth implementation and minimal disruption.

• Assisting in the development of finance systems robust testing of new functionality processes and setups and preparation of related documentation for sign off.

• Maintenance of the finance applications configuration and core setups in QA instances. This will often involve understanding the configuration from both a technical and functional perspective using the appropriate core systems skills.

• Assist with managing the product backlog incorporating feature requests for our finance application portfolio and add functionality into the 3E roadmap as deemed valuable by the business.

• Work seamlessly with global and senior management to plan incremental releases into our staging (for UAT) and production environments.

Process Improvement and Optimisation

• Identify opportunities to automate manual finance processes.

• Recommend system-driven solutions to improve efficiency and controls.

• Document system processes configurations and upgrade changes.

• Support post-upgrade stabilisation and optimisation efforts.

• Develop user stories and define acceptance criteria for all application development.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Collaborate with Finance Systems Team and IT Finance Application members globally to solve issues and provide solutions.

• Function as a liaison between Finance IT and external vendors.

• Provide training and guidance to finance users on system changes.

• Communicate upgrade timelines risks and impacts to stakeholders.

General

• Attend training from time to time both in terms of technical training and personal development. Training resources are made available within the department. This may be product related e.g. 3E or cultural / soft skills training.

• In accordance with your terms of employment you are required to ensure that the firms information security policies and procedures are always followed.

• You are required to complete security awareness training within a reasonable timeframe and apply the policy and training requirements when handling information.

• You are required to inform your manager or senior member of staff if you become aware of or suspect a breach of security.

Skills & Experience

Essential

The appropriate candidate will be a good communicator team player and well organised and flexible with a passion for exceeding client expectations.

• Finance systems background.

• Strong systems and business analysis problem solving and technical skills including documentation of requirements and troubleshooting of application issues.

• Detail-oriented with a continuous improvement mindset.

• Ability to work cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment.

• Upgrade planning / testing coordination.

• Management of 3rd party suppliers.

• Incident management.

• Project management or system implementation experience.

• An understanding of accounting systems and how the multi-company multi-currency paradigm works.

• Effective communication and stakeholder management.

Desired

• Accounting qualification.

• Core Elite 3E data structure knowledge.

• Business Analyst / QA.

• Legal / professional services sector background.

• Experience translating business requirements into system solutions.

• Experience of Software Development Lifecycle and using Azure DevOps.

• T-SQL to an advanced level.

Equal Opportunities Employment & Agile Working Statement

It is the policy of Hogan Lovells to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment training and promotion. Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of racial or ethnic origin religion sex gender and gender identity age sexual orientation marital and civil partnership status pregnancy or disability.

Our goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis and we will be happy to discuss this further.