Senior Analyst, Finance Technology - Procurement and Financial Operations

Norton Rose Fulbright•San Antonio, TX

About The Position

The Senior Analyst, Finance Technology - Procurement and Financial Operations serves as the IT functional lead for Coupa procurement operations and Aderant Sierra financial operations. The role supports 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. The 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. The role owns or supports 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. It leads or supports testing, defect triage, release planning, deployment, and stabilization, and coordinates incident remediation and vendor escalations. The position also works with Security, Compliance, Audit, and Information Governance teams on access, segregation of duties, retention, financial controls, and data security. Success is measured by stable operation of Coupa, Aderant Sierra, and related integrations; effective support for Procurement and Accounts Payable; timely resolution of incidents and discrepancies; accurate requirements, testing, documentation, and deployments; reduced control gaps and manual work; and strong stakeholder confidence across Procurement, Accounts Payable, Finance, and IT.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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 for requisitions, purchase orders, receipts, invoices, suppliers, approval workflows, accounting validation, and payment-related data flows.
Partner 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 for 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 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.