Remote Financial & Administrative Applications Lead

Husch Blackwell; Chattanooga (TN); On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Husch Blackwell LLP seeks an experienced Financial & Administrative Applications Manager to lead the firm’s critical application portfolio. You will drive operations, reporting, and vendor relations across finance, HR, procurement, and legal tech platforms, ensuring reliability and business alignment.

You will mentor teams, manage incidents, and push continuous improvement in service delivery and user experience, with a remote-friendly, nationwide work option.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, Accounting, Finance, or related field, or equivalent combination.
• 5+ years of experience supporting enterprise business applications.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience leading teams, projects, or operational functions.
• Experience supporting financial, accounting, administrative, or legal technology platforms preferred.
• Experience working within professional services, legal, financial services, or similar environments preferred.
• Strong understanding of financial, administrative, and operational business processes.
• Experience supporting enterprise financial systems, ERP platforms, HR systems, and related business applications.
• Experience with Elite 3E, Intapp products, UKG, or comparable enterprise platforms preferred.
• Experience supporting reporting and business intelligence platforms.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft Power BI, including dashboard development, reporting, data modeling concepts, and business analytics.
• Experience with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) report development, administration, and support.
• Knowledge of SQL and relational database concepts preferred.
• Experience working with application integrations, data flows, and enterprise reporting architectures.
• Strong customer service, stakeholder relationship management, and vendor management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the support, administration, and operational management of the Firm's financial and administrative application portfolio.
• Ensure timely resolution of application issues and service requests while maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction.
• Establish team priorities, workload management processes, and operational objectives.
• Promote accountability, collaboration, customer service, and operational excellence throughout the team.
• Develop strong partnerships with Finance, Accounting, Billing, Procurement, HR, Pricing and other business stakeholders.
• Act as a trusted advisor regarding application capabilities, limitations, opportunities, and operational improvements.
• Establish and maintain productive relationships with application vendors, consultants, and service providers.
• Lead the delivery and support of operational reporting, dashboards, and BI solutions (Power BI, SSRS).
• Oversee application lifecycle, upgrades, testing, and deployment planning.
• Identify opportunities to improve system stability, support efficiency, and user satisfaction.

Skills

Customer service

Stakeholder relationship management

Vendor management

Power BI

SQL

SSRS

Relational database concepts

Application integrations

Project leadership

ERP / financial systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, Accounting, Finance, or related field

Tools

Elite 3E

Intapp products

UKG

Job description

Husch Blackwell LLP seeks an experienced Financial & Administrative Applications Manager to lead the firm’s critical application portfolio. You will drive operations, reporting, and vendor relations across finance, HR, procurement, and legal tech platforms, ensuring reliability and business alignment.

You will mentor teams, manage incidents, and push continuous improvement in service delivery and user experience, with a remote-friendly, nationwide work option.