Senior Finance Data & Systems Analyst

nrf; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Norton Rose Fulbright in Houston seeks a Senior Analyst, Finance Technology to manage and enhance the Finance Data and operations platform. You will own Client and Matter Management, Accounts Receivable and collections enablement, finance master data, and data quality, ensuring reliable receivables processes across multiple systems.

You will partner with Finance, Billing, HR, Risk, IT, and vendors to optimize data flows, support testing and deployments, and translate business needs into

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary IT functional analyst for Client and Matter Management, Accounts Receivable and collections enablement, finance master data and shared reference data.
• Support Accounts Receivable capabilities including client and matter account structures, receivable balances, cash-application dependencies, adjustments, collections data, statements, aging, and related operational reporting.
• Support client and matter structures, statuses, attributes, hierarchies, addresses, billing and collection contacts, organizational reference data, and other governed data used by Sierra and connected systems.
• Analyze how client setup, matter setup, billing arrangements, payer details, credit and collection attributes, and account changes affect Accounts Receivable and downstream reporting.
• Partner with Accounts Receivable, Collections, Billing, New Business Intake, and Finance stakeholders to resolve data and process issues affecting receivables, cash application, aging, statements, and collection activity.
• Coordinate functional administration and data-quality activities across Sierra, MDS, Workday interfaces, Intapp, Fabric, Entra ID, and other approved enterprise platforms.
• Investigate cross-system data discrepancies, failed synchronizations, duplicate or incomplete records, access dependencies, and reporting-data issues; coordinate correction and prevention with data owners and technical teams.
• Own assigned Client, Matter, Accounts Receivable, people, security, document, and reporting integrations from a functional perspective, including requirements, mapping validation, reconciliation, exception review, testing, and sign-off.
• Translate business needs into functional requirements, data rules, process designs, configuration specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Lead or support system integration testing, regression testing, user acceptance testing, defect triage, production validation, release planning, cutover, deployment, and stabilization.
• Maintain functional specifications, configuration records, data definitions, mappings, support procedures, test evidence, release notes, and knowledge articles.
• Partner with Risk, HR, Security, Records, Finance, Data and Reporting, and Global IT to define ownership, controls, validation rules, and sustainable data‑maintenance processes.
• Monitor recurring defects, data-quality trends, platform issues, and manual workarounds; recommend improvements that strengthen receivables operations, data integrity, and platform reliability.
• Coordinate vendor and managed‑service‑provider escalations and validate vendor‑delivered fixes.
• Provide secondary support across the Finance technology portfolio as needed.

Job description

Norton Rose Fulbright in Houston seeks a Senior Analyst, Finance Technology to manage and enhance the Finance Data and operations platform. You will own Client and Matter Management, Accounts Receivable and collections enablement, finance master data, and data quality, ensuring reliable receivables processes across multiple systems.

You will partner with Finance, Billing, HR, Risk, IT, and vendors to optimize data flows, support testing and deployments, and translate business needs into