Senior Financial Systems Analyst

Who We Are

At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.

We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.

We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.

Our Values

If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.

Who You Are

The Senior Financial Systems Analyst sits at the critical cross-section of Accounting, Data, Engineering, Finance, and Product. Operating at the hub of our operational and financial infrastructure, you will lead the support, optimization, and strategic development of our financial systems. Reporting to the Senior Manager of Financial Systems, you will serve as the technical and operational bridge across teams to build scalable, automated, and audit-ready financial platforms.

You will be a key point of contact for system implementations, project management, and remediating complex system issues. You will be responsible for ensuring data integrity across financial systems, developing and enforcing data governance policies, and leading initiatives to streamline financial processes.

You’ll have the opportunity to directly influence the strategic direction of our financial systems, leading the development of processes and workflows by providing subject matter expertise with a focus on automation. You will be expected to think critically, proactively identify opportunities to enable or automate using technology, and champion best practices in financial systems management.

You’re passionate about process design, controls, and have a proven track record of significantly increasing a team’s operational efficiency. You are detail-oriented, with a keen eye for data accuracy, identifying discrepancies, and solving complex system issues.

Your Success Profile

What You Will Work On

• Oversee and optimize finance-owned systems, user access and data integrations
• Lead the development and maintenance of the integrity of financial data across all financial systems, ensuring compliance with SOC and SOX guidance
• Manage support escalation queues while prioritizing systemic stability: build scalable self-service workflows and automated error handling that systematically eliminate recurring support tickets.
• Collaborate with Process Design team to identify areas of opportunity for significant process enhancements and automation, with a focus on leveraging AI technologies
• Partner directly across Data, Engineering, Product, Finance, and Accounting teams to design, test, and deploy major system enhancements and API-driven integrations.
• Develop, implement, and enforce standard operating procedures, data governance policies, and best practices for financial systems
• Lead and manage special finance-related projects, including system implementations and upgrades, with a focus on incorporating AI solutions where applicable
• Perform other related duties as assigned

How You Will Do Your Work

As a Senior Financial Systems Analyst, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role, your advanced knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following competencies:

• Adaptability - the ability to adjust your approach or actions in response to changes in your external environment.
• Systems thinking - the ability to look at overall systems holistically and understand how things work within the system through the exploration of inter-dependencies and inter-relationships (context and connections).
• Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism.
• Optimizes work processes - knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.

In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:

• Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
• Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
• Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
• Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example. 
• Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of progressive experience as a Financial Systems Analyst or similar role, with a focus on financial systems administration, issue troubleshooting, and process automation
• 3+ years of dedicated NetSuite administration experience
• Proficiency in SQL and Jira is required
• Experience with Pigment is highly desirable
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical information to non-technical audiences
• Strong understanding of business and systems process management activities, including change management, requirement gathering, process mapping, improvement, and implementation
• Proven ability to work independently and collaboratively with cross-functional teams to achieve organizational goals
• Ability to translate business requirements into functional/technical specifications and design efficient system solutions
• Firm understanding of software development life cycle and systems analysis and design
• Aptitude for quickly learning new systems and subject matters
• Meticulous and detail-oriented; you pride yourself in finding mistakes or errors and putting measures in place to prevent these
• Experience in leading and managing financial systems projects, including system implementations and upgrades
• Ability to remain flexible and pragmatic under pressure with an ability to thrive in a changing and complex environment

The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $82,000.00 to $99,000.00 per year.

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Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including and not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location.  Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location. 

For more information about Justworks’ Total Reward Philosophy, including all of the perks and benefits we are proud to offer our team members, please visit Total Rewards @ Justworks. 

Diversity At Justworks

Justworks is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity, culture, and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. Diversity in our work, our people, and our product drives creativity and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and integrity, competitiveness, and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, our workplace more dynamic, and our product accessible to all of our customers.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or familial status, disability, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. Justworks is fully dedicated to providing necessary support to candidates with disabilities who may require reasonable accommodations. We also provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on their sincerely held religious beliefs, as well as for other covered reasons consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. If you're in need of a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at accommodations@justworks.com. Your comfort and success matter to us, and we're here to ensure an inclusive experience.

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