Finance Systems Analyst
London / Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom (Hybrid)
Full-time.
Wiggin is a multi-award winning law firm that specialises in media, technology and intellectual property. We have around 250 people, mainly based in our offices in London, Cheltenham and Brussels.
Like our lawyer teams, our business support teams aim to be innovative and client focused. In a constantly evolving workplace, our finance team provides commercially focussed advice and assistance to help our lawyers work profitably and manage their financial administration effectively and efficiently.
As our Finance Systems Analyst you’ll play a key role in this. You’ll provide 2nd and 3rd level support to the Finance Team and wider business for using our suite of finance tools: mainly Aderant (our PMS), Chrome River (expenses) and ARCS (account reconciliations). You’ll also help us to use the tools we have better, finding ways to develop existing tools and to integrate them with other systems and to test and implement upgrades and new software.
On a day-to-day basis you will be responsible for managing user access, including setting up new users, processing changes, training and trouble-shooting. You’ll be an essential part of ensuring the quality and integrity of the data and preparing appropriate reports.
Beyond that, a key part of your role will be to support us with the continual improvement of our management of financial data. We have plenty of projects ongoing and in the pipeline that we need your help with, so there’s an opportunity for you to really make a difference.
About you
We’re looking for someone with strong IT smarts and a solid understanding of finance management. You must have a detailed knowledge of working with and configuring a practice management system and, ideally, other finance related systems.You’ll be naturally analytical and process oriented, but you’ll also need to be pragmatic, commercial and personable – you’ll be dealing with our lawyers regularly and they need high level of service.
If you also have good SQL and experience in software testing and implementation we’ll be particularly impressed. And it’s not essential, but if you can top that with knowledge of the legal sector and the Solicitors Accounts Rules, we’ll be absolutely delighted.
Working at Wiggin
We’ve already mentioned we are a law firm, but we aren’t a typical law firm.
Our clients are Hollywood studios, major TV production and streaming services, Premier League football clubs and major sporting bodies, multinational games businesses, music studios and blue-chip technology and communications firms, alongside entrepreneurs, investors, early-stage companies and much more.
Although we are leaders in our fields, we are not stuffy. We have a casual dress policy, we work in open-plan, hot-desk workspaces and we have a positive and supportive culture. There isn't a typical Wiggin person. We aim to build teams that are diverse in thought, perspective and experience to provide a more rounded service to our internal and external clients.
We offer an attractive remuneration package including 25 days' holiday (plus birthdays off and buy/sell options), comprehensive private medical insurance, permanent health insurance and more from your first day of employment.
This role can be based in our central London or Cheltenham offices. We have a discretionary hybrid working policy allowing you to work from home 2 days per week.
No agencies please.