Senior Analyst, Finance Technology - Procurement and Financial Operations

Job Description

At Norton Rose Fulbright, people thrive because of a shared commitment to quality, unity and integrity. The highly regarded law firm consistently receives recognition from Great Place to Work and Top Workplaces, two companies that specialize in assessing organizational culture. Teams collaborate across regions, value new ideas and deliver meaningful client solutions, supported by a culture that embraces ambition, development and shared success. With more than 3,000 lawyers and 3,000 business services professionals working together across 50 offices worldwide, this global law firm provides a full range of legal services to leading corporations and financial institutions operating in key markets and sectors.

The Senior Analyst, Finance Technology - Procurement & Financial Operations serves as the IT functional lead for Coupa procurement operations and Aderant Sierra financial operations. The role has significant responsibility for procure-to-pay, supplier onboarding and maintenance, requisitions, purchase orders, receipts, invoices, approvals, accounting validation, accounts payable, general ledger, trust accounting, tax, expenses, treasury, banking, payments, and related financial integrations. This position partners with Finance, Procurement, Accounts Payable, technical teams, application owners, and vendors to translate business requirements into reliable system configuration, integrations, controls, testing, and support processes.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• •Serve as the primary IT functional analyst for Coupa procurement operations and Aderant Sierra financial operations, supporting configuration, production operations, enhancements, upgrades, and issue resolution.
• •Support Coupa capabilities and integrations across requisitions, purchase orders, receipts, invoices, suppliers, approval workflows, accounting validation, and payment-related data flows.
• •Partner closely with Procurement and Accounts Payable to improve procure-to-pay processes, supplier onboarding, supplier data quality, invoice processing, exception handling, and operational controls.
• •Support Coupa Supplier Information Management, supplier compliance workflows, vendor master synchronization, and related integration processes where implemented.
• •Support Aderant Sierra capabilities spanning Accounts Payable, General Ledger, trust accounting, tax, expenses, treasury, banking, payments, and financial close activities.
• •Analyze business needs and translate them into functional requirements, process designs, configuration specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• •Evaluate the impact of changes to the chart of accounts, accounting strings, vendor identifiers, tax rules, approval hierarchies, and related financial master data across Sierra, Coupa, and downstream applications.
• •Own assigned procurement, expense, payment, banking, and financial-reporting integrations from a functional perspective, including requirements, business rules, mapping validation, reconciliation, exception review, testing, and sign-off.
• •Partner with integration and development teams to define, test, monitor, and troubleshoot interfaces, APIs, middleware processes, scheduled jobs, file transfers, and data mappings.
• •Lead or support system integration testing, regression testing, user acceptance testing, defect triage, production validation, release planning, cutover, deployment, and stabilization.
• •Investigate incidents, interface failures, and data discrepancies; coordinate sustainable remediation and maintain functional documentation, support procedures, test evidence, release notes, and knowledge articles.
• •Collaborate with Security, Compliance, Audit, and Information Governance teams on access, segregation of duties, retention, financial controls, and data security.
• •Monitor application health, recurring support trends, control gaps, and manual workarounds; recommend improvements that strengthen reliability and operational efficiency.
• •Coordinate vendor and managed-service-provider escalations and validate vendor-delivered fixes.
• •Provide secondary support across the Finance technology portfolio as needed.

Capability Ownership

• •Procurement operations and procure-to-pay
• •Coupa administration and functional support
• •Supplier onboarding, supplier information, and vendor management
• •Accounts Payable
• •General Ledger and period close
• •Trust accounting and tax
• •Expense management
• •Treasury, banking, payments, and foreign exchange
• •Financial controls and reconciliation

Applications and Platforms

• •Coupa
• •Aderant Sierra Financials
• •Emburse Chrome River
• •Corpay
• •Approved banking, payment, expense, procurement, and financial-reporting platforms

Functional Integration Ownership

• •Coupa to Sierra, including supplier, purchasing, invoice, and accounting data
• •Emburse Chrome River to Sierra
• •Sierra to Corpay
• •Sierra to HSBC
• •Sierra to Bank of America
• •Sierra to Wells Fargo
• •Sierra to WEX
• •Oanda to Sierra
• •Procurement and Financial Operations feeds to approved reporting platforms

Required Qualifications

• •Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• •Five or more years of financial-systems functional analysis, business-systems analysis, product analysis, or application-support experience.
• •Demonstrated Coupa procurement experience covering procure-to-pay, supplier data, purchase orders, invoicing, approvals, and financial integrations.
• •Experience supporting Aderant Sierra or a comparable financial management system.
• •Strong understanding of procurement operations, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, accounting validation, payments, and reconciliation.
• •Experience gathering requirements, documenting processes, writing test scenarios, managing defects, and supporting production releases.
• •Ability to analyze cross-system issues using logs, interface files, reports, and data extracts.
• •Working knowledge of APIs, SFTP or file-based interfaces, middleware, scheduled jobs, data mappings, reconciliations, and exception handling; hands-on development is not required.
• •Strong analytical, stakeholder-management, documentation, planning, and communication skills.
• •Flexibility to support critical processing and deployments outside regular business hours when required.

Preferred Qualifications

• •Experience supporting Aderant Sierra in a professional-services or legal-services environment.
• •Knowledge of Coupa Supplier Information Management, supplier onboarding, compliance workflows, invoice integrations, and vendor synchronization.
• •Experience with FMS transformation, data conversion, chart-of-accounts redesign, vendor-ID changes, or financial-system migrations.
• •Experience configuring Coupa workflows, approval chains, accounting structures, and production support processes.
• •Familiarity with service management, change management, access governance, segregation of duties, and financial-data security.

Measures of Success

• •Stable operation of Coupa, Aderant Sierra, and related procurement and financial integrations.
• •Effective support of Procurement and Accounts Payable across suppliers, requisitions, purchase orders, receipts, invoices, approvals, and accounting validation.
• •Timely resolution of incidents, interface failures, data discrepancies, and procurement-processing exceptions.
• •Accurate requirements, configuration, testing, documentation, and deployments.
• •Reduced control gaps, recurring defects, and manual work.
• •Strong stakeholder confidence across Procurement, Accounts Payable, Finance, and IT.

Please note this job description does not cover or contain all activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Benefits

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