Financial Applications Engineer

Mayer Brown - Chicago, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Chicago, IL

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Financial Applications Engineer at Mayer Brown is responsible for the maintenance, support, and enhancement of financial and accounting applications. This role involves managing a global portfolio of applications, ensuring they meet business needs, and collaborating with IT and finance teams to align with firm and client requirements. The position requires a proactive approach to project management and communication, as well as technical expertise in financial systems.

Responsibilities

• Ensures financial applications meet the needs of the business
• Ensures the evolution of financial applications continues to meet business needs
• Prioritizes and successfully delivers assigned projects
• Supports software related to customized or packaged financial applications
• Performs telephone and desk side support for all financial applications
• Responsible for multiple concurrent large and complex projects
• Maintains a high level of responsiveness to customer inquiries
• Liaises between Firm management, sponsors, users, and IT personnel
• Attends user groups independently or with senior managers
• Develops written and oral communications explaining technical concepts in non-technical language
• Evaluates new financial products/applications for the Firm
• Recommends improvements on the use of all Firm financial applications
• Complies with the IT Department's change request system
• Ensures regular preventative maintenance is planned and implemented
• Contributes to user and systems needs analysis and requirements definition projects
• Develops and reviews design documentation
• Modifies procedures to solve complex problems
• Designs, codes, tests, and debugs programs
• Ensures software development goals support organizational goals
• Participates in vendor evaluation and recommendation
• Works with IT management to evolve operations program/project management methods
• Maintains proactive working relationships within the IT Department and with users
• Communicates downtime, maintenance, and updates to all teams
• Documents and distributes input back to user constituencies for quality assurance
• Performs other duties as assigned to meet Firm goals.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum 6 years' experience in IT systems applications environment
• Five+ years managing high-performance back-office and administrative support systems
• 6 years of IT industry experience, preferably in a professional partnership environment
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products
• In-depth knowledge of Aderant Expert technology
• 6+ years working with client-server and web-compliant development tools
• Strong working knowledge of relational databases
• Ability to conduct research into IT issues and products
• Ability to perform general mathematical calculations for business cases
• Strong understanding of technology, architecture, deployment, and quality assurance practices
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work in a diverse team environment
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Self-starter with high initiative and attention to detail
• Strong customer service skills and organizational skills
• Exercises strategic thinking and problem-solving skills

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• AD&D insurance
• 401(k) savings plan
• Back-up childcare and eldercare
• Generous paid time off (PTO)
• Opportunities for professional development and growth