Financial Systems Analyst Senior - Rolling Meadows - Gallagher

Description

Introduction

Welcome to Gallagher - a global community of people who bring bold ideas, deep expertise, and a shared commitment to doing what's right. We help clients navigate complexity with confidence by empowering businesses, communities, and individuals to thrive. At Gallagher, you'll find more than a job; you'll find a culture built on trust, driven by collaboration, and sustained by the belief that we're better together. Whether you join us in a client-facing role or as part of our brokerage division, our benefits and HR consulting division, or our corporate team, you'll have the opportunity to grow your career, make an impact, and be part of something bigger. Experience a workplace where you're encouraged to be yourself, supported to succeed, and inspired to keep learning. That's what it means to live The Gallagher Way.
How you'll make an impact

*Future opportunity for a Senior Financial Systems Analyst. While this role is not currently open, we are always looking to connect with talented professionals like yourself for upcoming opportunities.

This position reports to the Financial Systems Manager and is responsible for key tasks related to divisional financial systems testing, integration, support and reporting. This role will provide support to the Financial Systems Team, the Accounting Center and Divisional Finance and Operations teams.

 

Essential Functions:

• Perform all tasks related to the testing and conversion of accounting data from the branch agency management system to central divisional systems including data analysis and reconciliation of converted data.
• Perform all duties related to testing and implementation of agency management system upgrades and production maintenance.  
• Support all agency management system accounting processes and users with production issues. 
• Maintain organization of production support issues and prioritization.
• Work with internal and external development teams to test, implement and resolve production issues and new functionality.
• Develop and coordinate training and communication to finance and accounting users on new Epic functionality and reports.
• Perform testing and maintain finance and accounting reports in agency management systems and ancillary reporting systems.
• Develop and maintain accounting system procedures and testing documentation.
• Maintain organization of all electronic files for the accounting center as directed.
• Assist members of Financial Systems team with various projects, audits and duties as assigned.

Other Functions:

• Contribute to a cooperative team environment in which cross functions are assumed as necessary in order to meet department deadlines and goals.
• Review and implement written procedures for assigned processes within the department.
• Maintain accounting/system support files.
• Provide training to team members.
• Communicate processes and procedures to large group forums.
• Other duties as assigned.

About You

Required:

• Bachelor's degree
• Minimum of 4 years related experience with accounting systems and processes.
• Expert level proficiency in Excel.
• Strong accounting trade/accounting process knowledge as well as application support or relevant production, technical support and problem/incident management experience.

Preferred: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting/Finance/Information Systems or equivalent job experience preferred.
• Minimum 4 years of hands on experience of accounting systems and accounting processes and expert Excel proficiency.
• Strong accounting trade accounting process knowledge as well as application support or relevant production, technical support and problem/incident management experience.

Competencies (Skills & Abilities):

• Demonstrated ability to take initiative and achieve results in a fast-paced and changing environment.
• Strong sense of urgency and ability to prioritize issues.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Exceptional attention to numeric detail.
• Demonstrated customer service focus with a keen sense of urgency in assertively working to solve system problems with outside vendors and others.
• Strong teamwork orientation; willingness to help larger team meet goals and responsibilities.
• Ability to interact effectively with all teams
• Ability to work well with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and defects.
• Excellent documentation, communication, and interpersonal skills.

Working Conditions:

• Ability to work additional hours as needed to meet individual, team and department goals including month-end closings and system conversions.
• Ability to be flexible with working non-core hours when obstacles, challenges, deadlines or conversions dictate the need for such.
• As applicable, weekend work is required for either monthly scheduled maintenance and /or system conversions. 
• Occasional evening work may be necessary for system upgrades/testing per schedule.

Compensation and benefits

We offer a competitive and comprehensive compensation package. The base salary range represents the anticipated low end and high end of the range for this position. The actual compensation will be influenced by a wide range of factors including, but not limited to previous experience, education, pay market/geography, complexity or scope, specialized skill set, lines of business/practice area, supply/demand, and scheduled hours. On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits. 

Below are the minimum core benefits you'll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Medical/dental/vision plans, which start from day one
• Life and accident insurance
• 401(K) and Roth options
• Tax-advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA)
• Educational expense reimbursement
• Paid parental leave

Other benefits include:

• Digital mental health services (Talkspace)
• Flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function)
• Training programs
• Gallagher Thrive program – elevating your health through challenges, workshops and digital fitness programs for your overall wellbeing
• Charitable matching gift program
• And more...

**The benefits summary above applies to fulltime positions. If you are not applying for a fulltime position, details about benefits will be provided during the selection process.

We value inclusion and diversity

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Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it's embedded into the fabric of our organization. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees' diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as "protected characteristics") by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.