Dentons
Dentons
Dentons is a global law firm providing legal, compliance, and consulting services through its member firms and affiliates in more than 160 locations. Its work supports businesses with growth, risk management, operations, financing, mergers and acquisitions, tax advisory, anti-bribery and corruption matters, and data center projects. The firm also contributes to international initiatives and shares practical legal insight through webinars and thought leadership for general counsel and in-house legal teams.

Senior Financial Systems Analyst - Chicago Onsite

Senior Financial Systems Analyst role at Dentons supporting Elite 3E financial applications and legal-finance operations. The position focuses on integrations, SQL data analysis, troubleshooting, and production support.

Description

  • Administer and support Elite 3E and associated financial applications
  • Resolve complex application, workflow, integration, data, and production-support issues
  • Support financial operations covering time entry, billing, rates, accounts receivable, cash receipts, collections, accounts payable, general ledger, and bank reconciliation
  • Use SQL to investigate issues, validate data, and support authorized corrections and business requests
  • Maintain 3E configurations, workflows, templates, notifications, security, scheduled processes, and related settings
  • Monitor and support integrations between Elite 3E and time-entry, expense, collections, banking, HR, reporting, and matter-management systems
  • Collaborate with business, application, integration, and technical teams on cross-system issues and system changes
  • Support testing, implementation, deployment, and post-production validation for updates, patches, enhancements, upgrades, and Financial Systems projects
  • Research source data, assist with approved extracts, and coordinate reporting impacts with the reporting team
  • Support month-end, year-end, billing, and other critical financial-processing periods, including occasional after-hours coverage
  • Manage vendor support cases, document procedures and key changes, and identify opportunities to simplify or automate recurring support work
  • Complete additional duties required to fulfill the responsibilities of the role

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, information systems, accounting, finance, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience
  • At least five years of experience supporting financial systems in a law firm or professional-services environment
  • Hands-on experience with Elite 3E, Aderant, or a comparable enterprise financial management platform; Elite 3E experience is preferred
  • Strong T-SQL capabilities with Microsoft SQL Server, relational databases, data validation, and authorized data corrections
  • Knowledge of law firm financial operations, including billing, time entry, rates, accounts receivable, accounts payable, collections, and general ledger
  • Experience diagnosing applications, workflows, scheduled processes, integrations, interfaces, and production-support issues
  • Experience testing, implementing, and supporting application changes, patches, upgrades, enhancements, data conversions, and integrations
  • Familiarity with Elite 3E configuration tools, Integration Builder, reporting and data platforms, automation tools, IT service management, incident management, or formal change control is preferred
  • Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, prioritization, documentation, follow-through, and judgment abilities
  • Availability for occasional after-hours support

Benefits

  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan
  • Profit-sharing program
  • Short-term disability coverage
  • Long-term disability coverage
  • Life insurance
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Paid time off
  • Paid holidays
  • Discretionary bonuses

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