Senior Finance Systems Analyst in Birmingham

Kennedys is looking for a Senior Finance Systems Analyst to join our Finance team based in London, Manchester or Birmingham. Team Kennedys Finance team support the firm globally, producing timely and accurate financial and management information, reporting solutions and operational support to maintain the high standard of service offered to the firm's internal and external clients. Our Finance team is made up of Financial Control, Financial Planning and Analysis, Management Accounts, Working Capital, Legal Cashiering and Financial Operations Database teams. Our UK Finance team is based in Chelmsford and London and have a presence in eight global offices.

Key responsibilities

• Provide support to a variety of user issues via email, visit or phone call, providing solutions and escalating where required in order to provide an effective and intelligent helpdesk facility, delivering high service levels at all times.
• Administer the call logging and change control system and ensure that knowledge is documented and spread amongst the team keeping users up to date with progress on their calls and change requests.
• Provide ad-hoc business and technical help to users on the usage of the finance systems.
• Act as intermediary between the finance support and IT technical support, providing technical and process advice with regards to all of the global and London based finance support IT systems.
• Liaise directly with the PMS third party suppliers documenting and implementing fixes as appropriate.
• Provide immediate solutions to systems issues arising, liaising with other support teams to ensure their prompt resolution and adding value back into current KB articles and processes.
• Aid in the implementation of new upgrades, functionality and system wide changes, from a finance support perspective.
• Work closely with the development teams and third party providers, feeding back issues and defects discovered through testing and coordinating their resolution.

Required experience

• Experience of financial systems administration within a professional services environment, preferably Elite 3e.
• Proven ability to comprehend financial terminology and communicate with accounting colleagues on system configuration and GL master data.
• Advanced level Excel (pivot tables, vlookups, complex formulae).
• Proven ability to comprehend, compose and execute complex SQL queries, preferably within Elite 3E database.
• Self-motivated with the ability, and resilience, to drive projects to their completion.
• Ability to prioritise and work to tight deadlines.
• Experience of working in a legal or professional services firm.
• Knowledge of servers and database structures.
• Previous use of an OLAP analysis tool along the lines of Power BI.
• Accounting training or qualification is advantageous.

Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys.

About Kennedys

Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 2,750 people worldwide across 47 offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and America we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field. Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.

We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.

What do we have to offer?

We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference. Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable, straightforward, supportive and distinctive. Our values are at the core of who we are and what make us a great firm to work with and for.

The Firm recognises the value of investing in our people's development and believes our culture and values contribute to the quality of our work and of our client relationships. With a culture of on-the-job and experiential learning, peer to peer learning, mentoring, resources and tools that enable you to drive your career, we can support your development in our current and future roles. A variety of other opportunities are available including secondments to clients and our global offices.

We strive to celebrate diversity, empower our people and ensure everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. We've created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work and trust, where diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority. We recognise that many of our people want to work for an employer that is aligned to their values, which is why we are building an inclusive culture, decarbonising our operations and supporting our people to thrive at work. Our people are the key to driving this change and helping us to make a difference to our clients, our people and the communities in which we live and work.

Kennedys is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. We expect all employees to be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures within their jurisdiction, including those relating to Information Security, Data Protection and Quality Management, refer any breach promptly to Risk & Compliance and to complete all mandatory training when requested.