Senior Finance Technology Analyst – Data & Receivables

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP

Houston (TX)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) / Profit sharing

Fertility benefits

Paid time off

Parental leave

Commuter benefits

Disability insurance

Job summary

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP is seeking a Senior Analyst, Finance Technology to oversee the functional operation and improvement of the Finance data platform. You will own Client and Matter Management, Accounts Receivable data, and master data, partnering across Finance, HR, Risk, IT, and vendors to ensure trusted data and reliable receivables processes.

You will translate business needs into functional requirements, support integrations, and drive data-quality initiatives across Sierra, Workday

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Finance, Accounting, Business, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Five or more years of functional analysis, business-systems analysis, product analysis, application support, master-data, or financial-platform experience.
Experience supporting an ERP, financial management system, Client and Matter platform, or comparable enterprise application; Aderant Sierra experience is strongly preferred.
Functional understanding of Accounts Receivable, collections, cash application, aging, statements, adjustments, client accounts, and matter-level financial data.
Experience gathering requirements, defining data rules, documenting processes, writing test scenarios, managing defects, and supporting releases.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to assess cross-system and data impacts.
Excellent stakeholder management, documentation, planning, and communication skills.
Flexibility to support critical processing and deployments outside regular business hours when required.

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.