Financial Systems Analyst
Philadelphia County, PA - USA
Job Summary
This is a remote position.
Philadelphia Region Primarily Remote Full-Time Direct Hire
A well-established professional services organization is seeking a Financial Systems Analyst to support and enhance its financial technology environment. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who combines financial systems knowledge with strong analytical problem-solving and communication skills.
The Financial Systems Analyst will serve as an important link between Finance Billing and technology providing day-to-day systems support while helping improve business processes reporting testing and system functionality.
This position is primarily remote for candidates located in the Philadelphia region with occasional in-office attendance expected.
Financial Systems Support
- Provide day-to-day support for the organizations financial management system including time entry billing client/matter setup and financial reporting.
- Troubleshoot system issues involving billing rules matter configurations financial data flows and other system functionality.
- Assist with system administration activities including user provisioning security role maintenance and reference data updates.
- Resolve routine system issues and thoroughly document and escalate more complex problems when needed.
Business Process & Systems Analysis
- Partner closely with Accounting and Billing teams to understand and improve processes involving timekeeping billing cycles collections and revenue recognition.
- Document business processes workflows billing arrangements and system dependencies.
- Gather requirements for system changes and enhancements and evaluate their potential impact on downstream processes.
- Help translate business needs into practical system solutions.
Testing & System Enhancements
- Support system upgrades patches configuration changes and other enhancements.
- Perform functional regression and data-validation testing.
- Assist with User Acceptance Testing (UAT) including preparing test cases supporting users and validating results after implementation.
- Help ensure system changes maintain billing accuracy and appropriate financial controls.
Reporting & Data Support
- Support standard and ad hoc financial and billing reporting.
- Use basic SQL queries to extract reconcile and validate financial data.
- Perform data-integrity checks and help identify discrepancies between systems billing outputs and financial reports.
Documentation & User Support
- Create and maintain clear documentation for financial systems and related business processes.
- Provide systems-focused support to Finance and Billing users.
- Translate user questions and business problems into actionable technical findings.
- Contribute to internal knowledge resources and continuous process improvement.
- Bachelors degree in Accounting Finance Information Systems or a related field.
- Approximately 36 years of experience in financial systems accounting systems administration systems analysis or a related area.
- Experience supporting financial or billing systems within a law firm or professional services environment strongly preferred.
- Experience with 3E is highly desirable.
- Working knowledge of financial and/or legal billing processes.
- Ability to work with basic SQL for data extraction reconciliation and validation.
- Experience with system testing UAT troubleshooting or system enhancements.
- Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work effectively with both technical and nontechnical users.
- Organized flexible and comfortable managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Self-directed and capable of working effectively in a primarily remote environment.
This organization offers the combination of stability flexibility and continued growth along with an opportunity to work across financial systems technology and business operations. The position provides significant exposure to a critical enterprise financial platform and the opportunity to continue developing within the financial systems space.
Compensation: Approximately $115000$120000 with some flexibility depending on experience.
Schedule: MondayFriday approximately 9:00 AM5:00 PM.
Work Arrangement: Primarily remote; candidates should reside in the Philadelphia region and be able to attend the office periodically.