Senior Financial Systems Analyst

The Superior Court of Los Angeles County is the largest unified trial court in the United States. With 582 judicial officers and over 4,600 full-time employees serving across 36 facilities, the Court is dedicated to providing equal access to justice for all of Los Angeles County. The Court values commitment, collaboration, and professional skill sets, offering accessible career paths, a healthy work-life balance, job stability, and comprehensive total rewards including generous pay, benefits, a robust public sector pension, and Court-matched 401K/457 individual savings plans.

About The Opportunity

The Senior Financial Systems Analyst plays a key role in supporting the Court’s financial operations by leveraging financial expertise, business process analysis, and technical knowledge to modernize and support financial systems through data-driven solutions. This position leads the analysis, design, implementation, and continuous improvement of financial systems, reporting, and business intelligence initiatives to enhance operational efficiency, strengthen internal controls, and support data-informed decision-making. The role partners with stakeholders to understand business challenges, identify process improvements, and translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Finance, Court Operations, Information Technology, and other stakeholders to analyze business needs, gather and document requirements, and translate business objectives into scalable technology solutions supporting financial operations and organizational goals.
• Lead the analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and continuous improvement of financial systems, business intelligence solutions, and automated business processes to improve operational efficiency, strengthen internal controls, and reduce manual effort.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize SQL queries, data models, data pipelines, enterprise data warehouse solutions, automated reporting processes, and interactive dashboards using Power BI or similar business intelligence platforms to support financial reporting and data-informed decision-making.
• Ensure the accuracy, integrity, security, and governance of enterprise financial data by performing data validation, reconciliation, root cause analysis, quality assurance testing, and developing standardized data management practices.
• Lead or support complex system implementation projects by preparing business and technical documentation, coordinating testing and user acceptance testing (UAT), managing deployments, providing user training, and delivering post-implementation support.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor by providing project leadership, fostering collaboration across cross-functional teams, mentoring staff, and identifying innovative opportunities to leverage technology, data, and automation for continuous improvement of financial operations.

The responsibilities above illustrate the general scope of work for this classification. Individual positions may not perform all listed duties.

Requirements

To qualify, you must meet one of the following options at the final filing date of this bulletin:

• Option I: High school diploma, GED, or equivalent and seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience performing financial systems analysis, business systems analysis, requirements gathering, SQL development, data management, testing, implementation, user support, business intelligence reporting, automation, and related functions supporting financial applications.
• Option II: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university with a major in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, Data Analytics, or a closely related field and five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in the same functions as Option I.
• Option III: Certification in database design/development, database management, data analytics, business intelligence, or another discipline requiring advanced knowledge and application of SQL and relational database technologies and six (6) years of progressively responsible experience in the same functions as Option I.

Credit for experience is based on a 40-hour workweek. Part-time experience is credited on a pro rata basis. Overtime does not count toward additional credit.

Desirable Qualifications

The ideal candidate will possess one or more of the following:

• Experience supporting enterprise financial systems within a large, complex organization, including financial operations, accounting, budgeting, revenue management, or other mission-critical business functions.
• Demonstrated expertise in business systems analysis, including business process analysis, requirements gathering, process mapping, preparation of business and functional requirements documentation, system testing, implementation, and user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Advanced technical proficiency in SQL, relational databases, and data management, including developing and optimizing complex queries, data models, stored procedures, ETL/ELT processes, data pipelines, data warehousing, and ensuring data quality, governance, and integrity.
• Experience designing and developing business intelligence and reporting solutions using Power BI or similar analytics platforms to create dashboards, automate reporting, and provide actionable insights for operational and data-informed decision-making.
• Strong project management, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to lead complex initiatives, collaborate effectively with cross-functional stakeholders, manage competing priorities, and translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Professional certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Associate, Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Microsoft SQL certifications, or other relevant certifications.

Benefits

• Generous pay and benefits
• Robust public sector pension
• Court-matched 401K/457 individual savings plans
• Accessible career paths and job stability
• Healthy work-life balance

Schedule

This position may be eligible for partial telework following an initial training period and contingent upon the needs of the Court.