Financial Applications Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL

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.