Senior Financial Systems Manager

Kaizen Analytix•Chicago, IL

6d•Remote

About The Position

We are seeking a senior-level Financial Systems Lead with deep Elite 3E expertise to guide strategy, drive migrations, and optimize financial processes across a large professional services environment. This role requires significant leadership capability, a strong consulting presence, and mastery of the financial, reporting, and administrative architecture within Elite 3E. The ideal consultant operates comfortably at both a strategic and hands-on level, partnering with senior finance and IT stakeholders to shape long-term system direction, resolve complex issues, and lead successful 3E transformations.

Requirements

10+ years of law firm finance or financial systems experience, including leadership responsibilities.
5+ years of deep hands-on Elite 3E experience across financial modules, reporting, and administration.
Advanced understanding of 3E data structures, workflow design, reporting templates, and financial processes.
Strong SQL skills for reporting, data validation, and analysis.
Demonstrated ability to define systems strategy, lead migrations, and drive major ERP transformations.
Strong knowledge of law firm finance best practices and the end-to-end matter lifecycle.
Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders, drive decision-making, and manage cross-departmental initiatives.
Experience explaining complex technical concepts to non-technical leaders.
High degree of ownership, accountability, and comfort working independently.
This role requires authorization to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship

Nice To Haves

Prior consulting or advisory experience preferred.
Experience leading full Elite 3E migrations, upgrades, or major process redesigns.
Understanding of integrations between 3E and related platforms (finance, billing, time, reporting).

Responsibilities

Serve as the lead functional and finance subject-matter expert for Elite 3E.
Define the strategic vision for 3E platform optimization, migrations, and long-term roadmap development.
Advise stakeholders on out-of-the-box capabilities vs. custom solutions, ensuring best-practice design.
Lead discovery workshops and facilitate alignment between finance leadership, IT, and technical teams.
Perform root-cause analysis, troubleshoot issues, and recommend data-driven solutions.
Oversee configuration, reporting structures, integrations, and data flows across the 3E ecosystem.
Drive process improvement across billing, matter lifecycle, budgeting, timekeeping, and financial reporting.
Provide senior oversight of system design, requirements definition, solution quality, and project governance.
Build trusted relationships with executive stakeholders and serve as a strategic advisor.
Mentor analysts and junior team members; provide leadership to cross-functional project teams.
Guide testing strategy, adoption planning, deployment readiness, and post-launch stabilization efforts.