Ropes & Gray LLP is a preeminent global law firm focused on providing the highest-quality advice on our clients’ critical legal and business issues. Our global team of 2,500 talented professionals regularly helps clients meet high-stakes challenges, solve complex problems and achieve key goals. These colleagues work together across a global office network that includes offices in Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Tokyo, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
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With an international presence, we focus on a number of key industries, including private equity; asset management; life sciences and health care; investment banking; technology, media and telecommunications; and consumer and retail. Our clients include global industry leaders, financial institutions, investment firms, private equity firms, hospitals and health care organizations, educational institutions, and individuals.
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JOB SUMMARY:
The Systems Administrator is responsible for technical administration of the firm’s financial systems including accounting, time entry and other related systems. The System Administrator manages application servers, databases, integration points, data interfaces and transmissions, reporting, back-end scripting and queries, performance/stability, and system security. The Systems Administrator is responsible for the analysis and resolution of problems related to data, software, servers, and usage, installation and maintenance of system software, including upgrades and patches, monitoring of system performance and maintaining system security. The position requires extensive interaction with business stakeholders collaborating with the Financial Systems team to execute the Finance technology strategy. The Systems Administrator is a technical subject matter expert in the accounting systems, integrated firm systems and interfaces to external systems. While working on projects to perform upgrades or implement new technology, the most important responsibility of the System Administrator is to maintain the health of the production financial systems.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
1. Day-to-day administration and support of the Firm’s accounting system (Elite 3E), time entry, and other related systems in production and multiple pre-production environments.
2. Serve as one of the primary IT representatives to the Finance Department, Financial Systems team and project teams to deliver strategic projects related to the firm’s financial systems and the systems with which they integrate.
3. Manage support tickets and escalations to the software vendors and consultants.
4. Track and optimize system performance and storage utilization, plan ahead for necessary hardware or software upgrades to support system growth.
5. Implement security patches and maintain system configurations according to firm technology best practices.
6. Create and maintain system documentation.
7. Work closely with the Database Administrators to provision, maintain and secure database components of financial applications.
8. Team with the Networks group to oversee the operation of servers and storage dedicated to systems described above, including hardware and software installation, upgrades, service packs and patches, system monitoring and job scheduling.
9. Participate in DR planning and perform regular testing for financial systems.
10. Complete knowledge transfer to ensure depth of coverage, thorough documentation of systems and shared understanding of systems by administrators, Financial Systems, User Support teams and end users.
EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS REQUIRED:
ESSENTIAL CAPABILITIES:
WORKING CONDITIONS:
Boston Comprehensive Total Rewards Package
Ropes & Gray is proud to offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package to our business support team members. The firm also offers comprehensive health and well-being benefits, personal and professional development, career growth opportunities and a collegial and supportive culture. The anticipated pay range for this role is $86,500 - $131,000, which represents our good faith and reasonable estimate of the starting salary range at the time of posting. In addition, this role is eligible for a discretionary bonus based on performance. The actual offered rate for this position will be determined based on job-related, non-discriminatory factors, including qualifications and experience, geographic location, education, external market data and consideration of internal equity.
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