Remote Finance Systems Administrator (Elite 3E)

Ropes & Gray LLP; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 116,000 - 177,000; Full time

Job summary

Ropes & Gray LLP is seeking a Systems Administrator to manage the firm’s financial systems, including Elite 3E and IntApp Time, in a fully remote role. You will ensure security, performance, and integration across time entry, accounting, and reporting modules.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with Elite 3E, SQL, and Windows Server, plus knowledge of finance workflows such as time entry, billing, GL, and forecasting. Strong documentation and collaboration with Finance are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or related field or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum two years experience administering Elite 3E (including 3E Templates and Paperless Proforma) and IntApp Time.
• Experience administering additional Finance applications including Chrome River, treasury management systems, bank payment systems, strongly desired.
• Proficiency with SQL including the Elite 3E SQL database schema and advanced query writing skills.
• Experience with clustering and load balancing strongly desired.

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day administration and support of the Firm’s accounting system (Elite 3E), time entry, and other related systems in production and multiple pre-production environments.
• Serve as one of the primary IT representatives to the Finance Department, Financial Systems team and project teams to deliver strategic projects related to the firm’s financial systems and the systems with which they integrate.
• Manage support tickets and escalations to the software vendors and consultants.
• Track and optimize system performance and storage utilization, plan ahead for necessary hardware or software upgrades to support system growth.
• Implement security patches and maintain system configurations according to firm technology best practices.
• Create and maintain system documentation.
• Work closely with the Database Administrators to provision, maintain and secure database components of financial applications.
• Team with the Networks group to oversee the operation of servers and storage dedicated to systems described above, including hardware and software installation, upgrades, service packs and patches, system monitoring and job scheduling.
• Participate in DR planning and perform regular testing for financial systems.
• Complete knowledge transfer to ensure depth of coverage, thorough documentation of systems and shared understanding of systems by administrators, Financial Systems, User Support teams and end users.

Skills

SQL & Elite 3E

Advanced query writing

IIS administration

PowerShell

Troubleshooting

Windows Server administration

Load balancing

Education

Bachelor’s degree or related field or equivalent

Tools

Elite 3E

IntApp Time

Chrome River

Treasury management systems

Bank payment systems

BizTalk

Job description

Ropes & Gray LLP is seeking a Systems Administrator to manage the firm’s financial systems, including Elite 3E and IntApp Time, in a fully remote role. You will ensure security, performance, and integration across time entry, accounting, and reporting modules.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with Elite 3E, SQL, and Windows Server, plus knowledge of finance workflows such as time entry, billing, GL, and forecasting. Strong documentation and collaboration with Finance are required.