Senior Financial Analyst (Management Accounting)

For Linklaters LGS in Warsaw, we are currently recruiting for the Senior Financial Analyst (Management Accounting) role.

Work arrangements:

Model work: Hybrid

Contract: Employment contract with 3- month probation period

Working hours: Team typically works standard hours from 10:00 to 18:15.

About the role

This Warsaw-based role sits within our UK & Global Head Office Finance team supporting Global Business Teams with management accounting and statutory reporting activities. Working closely with senior stakeholders, the team focuses on accurate financial information, insightful analysis and strong financial control. The role supports our London and Global Head Office functions and reports to the relevant London Finance Manager.

As a Senior Financial Analyst (Management Accounting), you will be responsible for:

Management and statutory accounting

• Ensuring accurate and timely recording of transactions relating to specific Business Teams and fixed asset portfolios

• Calculating and posting month end entries into SAP as part of the London and Global Head Office monthly accounts process

• Preparing and reviewing monthly expenditure and variance analyses, commentaries and headcount reports

• Reconciling and analysing general ledger accounts, including fixed asset and lease accounts

• Supporting the preparation of statutory accounts and external audit deliverables for UK entities

Budgeting and forecasting

• Supporting Business Teams throughout the annual budgeting and forecasting processes for your areas of responsibility

• Explaining the process and timetable, assisting with calculations and inputs to the budget model and reviewing submissions for completeness and accuracy

• Preparing variance analyses and obtaining explanations for significant movements

• Discussing issues with the London Finance Manager and assisting in challenging budget submissions

• Preparing additional analyses and supporting senior management teams for their moderation meetings with the Global Group Finance Director (GFD)

Business partnering and advisory

• Acting as the main point of contact within Finance for one or more Business Teams in relation to fixed assets and related accounting areas

• Advising Business Teams on their financial position and the impact of key projects, capital expenditure and lease arrangements

• Providing technical financial insight and advising on the firm’s policies and procedures

• Recommending appropriate accounting treatments and helping non‑finance stakeholders understand complex, numerical issues in a clear and concise way

People development and quality control

• Sharing responsibility for the supervision, training and development of trainee and assistant accountants in the team

• Ensuring the accuracy, completeness and integrity of management and statutory accounting and reporting for your assigned areas

• Performing quality checks on reconciliations, postings and reports, and maintaining robust documentation and audit trails

• Escalating relevant issues and risks to the London Finance Manager and contributing to continuous process improvement

You will be a strong fit for this role if you:

• Have areas of expertise relevant for the role, such as:

  • Profit and loss (P&L) and balance sheet review and reporting, including supervision and review of balance sheet reconciliations

  • Fixed asset accounting, including monthly depreciation calculations, budgeting of depreciation and maintenance of the fixed asset register (FAR)

  • Global project accounting and reporting

  • Project analysis, premises and local recharges

  • Inter‑company recharges

  • Daily, weekly and rolling cash flow forecasting

  • Preparation of statutory accounts

• Have hands‑on experience with fixed asset accounting and/or IFRS 16 lease accounting (a strong asset),

• Have experience in management accounting, reporting and budgeting (preferable),

• Hold a university degree, ideally in finance, accounting, economics or a related field,

• Are a qualified accountant (ACA or ACCA) with up to two years post‑qualification experience,

• Are confident using English at C1/C2 level to engage clearly and appropriately with stakeholders at all levels across the organization,

• Use Excel with confidence (e.g. lookups, pivot tables, complex formulas) and are comfortable working with large data sets,

• Demonstrate strong competency in data entry, data management and Microsoft Office tools,

• Have experience with SAP or another enterprise resource planning (ERP) system (highly beneficial),

• Learn new finance systems and reporting tools quickly and confidently,

• Present a confident and self‑assured manner and stay diplomatic when challenged,

• Are highly motivated and able to work on your own initiative,

• Work well under pressure and to tight deadlines, especially at month end and year end,

• Enjoy working in a team and building strong relationships with stakeholders,

• Can explain complex numerical issues in a clear and concise way to non‑finance experts,

• Are extremely organised and able to prioritise and manage a varied workload,

• Pay great attention to accuracy, detail and presentation.

• Are open to business travel several times a year.

Benefits
Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you'll be making to our success. These include:

• Private medical care

• Free in-house fitness center

• Life insurance

• Worldwide travel insurance for business and non-business travel

• Benefit Multisport club card or subsidized travel card

• Wide range of training opportunities

About Linklaters

Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional.
We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction.
Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere.
We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias, because we want everyone to feel that they belong. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common mind-set.
We recognise that one size does not fit all. Our goal is to embed flexibility across our firm by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.

At Linklaters

• We offer a truly global work experience and the opportunity to be involved in strategic projects that drive innovation and shape the future of our business

• We belong to a firm that embodies its corporate social, environment and governance responsibility commitments

• We celebrate diversity, equity and inclusion so our people can bring themselves to work

• We advocate speak-up culture to empower our people in sharing their voices and an open-door policy to ensure they are listened to

• We invest in custom-fit career paths for our people in line with their talents and aspirations

• We provide agile working solutions to meet the changing needs of our people and our business

• We are committed to people first relationships based on mutual trust, respect and appreciation

• We support the health and wellbeing of our people, providing a safe space to talk about emotions and mental health with access to expert advice as needed

• We invest in developing leaders of the future who demonstrate emotional intelligence and a passion to discover, coach and develop the talents of others

Technical Skills:

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive.  It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.