Remote Systems Administrator - Financial Systems

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

Job summary

Ropes & Gray LLP is seeking a Systems Administrator for its finance technology stack. You will manage Elite 3E, IntApp Time, and related systems, while collaborating with Finance and IT to deploy strategic projects and maintain system health.

You will handle security patches, perform performance tuning, and contribute to documentation, DR planning, and cross-team knowledge transfer in a remote-friendly environment across major US cities.

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.
• Experience with web server/web site administration and Microsoft IIS strongly desired.
• Experience with BizTalk a strong plus.
• Experience with Elite 3E IDE a strong plus.
• Knowledge of Powershell.
• Outstanding troubleshooting skills.
• Strong understanding of law firm financial processes including time entry, billing, accounts payable, accounts receivable, collections, general ledger, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, month and year-end closings
• Experience administering Windows Server, fluent understanding of Windows Server operating system and administrative tools.
• Understanding of law firm business processes such as client/matter intake, ethical walls, alternative fee arrangements, etc. strongly desired.
• Application installation and configuration experience.
• Superior organizational skills, bias for action and strong initiative.
• Excellent technical writing and documentation skills.
• Outstanding listening skills and written and oral communication skills, including effective presentation skills.

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

Elite 3E

SQL

Windows Server

Powershell

IIS

Troubleshooting

Communication

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Elite 3E

IntApp Time

Chrome River

Bank payment systems

BizTalk

PowerShell

Job description

Ropes & Gray LLP is seeking a Systems Administrator for its finance technology stack. You will manage Elite 3E, IntApp Time, and related systems, while collaborating with Finance and IT to deploy strategic projects and maintain system health.

You will handle security patches, perform performance tuning, and contribute to documentation, DR planning, and cross-team knowledge transfer in a remote-friendly environment across major US cities.