# Senior Analyst, Finance Technology - Procurement & Financial Operations **Company**: Norton Rose Fulbright **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Finance **Industry**: Finance **Apply**: https://nrf.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Houston-Texas-USA/Senior-Analyst--Finance-Technology---Procurement-and-Financial-Operations_R-4460?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_e3511e3d-c93 ## Description The Senior Analyst, Finance Technology - Procurement & Financial Operations serves as the IT functional lead for Coupa procurement operations and Aderant Sierra financial operations. Responsibilities include: - Serving as the primary IT functional analyst for Coupa procurement operations and Aderant Sierra financial operations - Supporting Coupa capabilities and integrations across requisitions, purchase orders, receipts, invoices, suppliers, approval workflows, accounting validation, and payment-related data flows - Partnering closely with Procurement and Accounts Payable to improve procure-to-pay processes, supplier onboarding, supplier data quality, invoice processing, exception handling, and operational controls - Analyzing business needs and translating them into functional requirements, process designs, configuration specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria - Evaluating 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 - Owning assigned procurement, expense, payment, banking, and financial-reporting integrations from a functional perspective - Partnering with integration and development teams to define, test, monitor, and troubleshoot interfaces, APIs, middleware processes, scheduled jobs, file transfers, and data mappings - Leading or supporting system integration testing, regression testing, user acceptance testing, defect triage, production validation, release planning, cutover, deployment, and stabilization - Investigating incidents, interface failures, and data discrepancies; coordinating sustainable remediation and maintaining functional documentation, support procedures, test evidence, release notes, and knowledge articles - Collaborating with Security, Compliance, Audit, and Information Governance teams on access, segregation of duties, retention, financial controls, and data security - Monitoring application health, recurring support trends, control gaps, and manual workarounds; recommending improvements that strengthen reliability and operational efficiency - Coordinating vendor and managed-service-provider escalations and validating vendor-delivered fixes - Providing 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 - 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 Benefits: - Comprehensive and competitive benefits package - Access to three medical insurance plans, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, and disability insurance - Pre-tax benefits such as health savings and flexible spending accounts - 401(k) savings plan and profit-sharing plans if eligible - Fertility benefits - Commuter benefits - Student loan assistance refinancing options - Paid time off plan - Generous paid maternity leave and paid paternity leave - Child care support through a back-up care program - 11 Firm holidays ## Skills ### Required - Coupa - Aderant Sierra - procurement operations - Accounts Payable - General Ledger - accounting validation - payments - reconciliation - APIs - SFTP - middleware - data mappings ### Nice to have - Coupa Supplier Information Management - supplier onboarding - compliance workflows - invoice integrations - vendor synchronization - FMS transformation - data conversion - chart-of-accounts redesign - vendor-ID changes - financial-system migrations --- Source: [Apply at nrf.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com](https://nrf.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Houston-Texas-USA/Senior-Analyst--Finance-Technology---Procurement-and-Financial-Operations_R-4460?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)