Central Accounting Assistant

For Linklaters Office in Warsaw, we are currently recruiting for the Central Accounting Assistant role.

About The Team

You will join the Finance team as a valued and integral part of our group of skilled professionals. The Finance function comprises a globally diverse team dedicated to the firm’s financial health, effective decision-making, and the delivery of timely financial insight and control. You will work closely with both the local Warsaw team and our wider Finance network, benefiting from strong professional support and a shared commitment to excellence. Our team culture is rooted in collaboration, integrity, and continuous improvement.

You will support local accounting advisors with local and global finance activities, assisting with transaction recording, variance analysis, and financial reporting, ensuring accurate month-end and year-end closures, and maintaining compliance with government returns and audits while aiding in budgeting and global project accounting.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Provides support to the local accounting advisors and managers and performs ad hoc analysis as required.
• Assists with finance support to Business Team functions and ensures the accurate and timely recording of transactions relating to specific business areas.
• Assists with advising business areas of their financial position through preparation of variance analysis and commentary.
• Delivers local month-end and year-end close processes, calculates and posts all required entries, and ensures complete, accurate and timely financial reporting.
• Supports the annual budgeting process including for business team function headcount and expenditure, LON practice and business team salary uploads, global projects spend and depreciation.
• Provides support on accounting and reporting of global projects. Including setting up and closing projects in SAP, preparing monthly variance reports for individual project managers, review of smaller business cases, guidance to project managers on revenue/capital splits and coding, following up issues, assisting in the preparation of monthly variance reports for the Strategic and Tech Portfolio Managers.
• Assists in the maintenance, accuracy and completeness of the FAR, general ledgers and reconciliations. Including the review of the general ledger postings to ensure that the Firm’s accounting policies are being applied. Review of the monthly depreciation charge.  Preparation of the annual depreciation budget and reforecast of depreciation. Preparing the year end fixed assets audit file - ensure there is sufficient backup information to support the fixed asset entries in the accounts.  Preparation of the annual roll forward of the FAR.
• Assists in completing mandatory government monthly, quarterly and annual returns.
• Assists in the annual external audit, compiling necessary documentation and responding to auditor queries.
• Assists in the preparation of annual financial statements.  

Our Ideal Candidate

• Experience in financial or management accounting support roles in a global professional services firm, preferably in the legal sector.
• Demonstrated ability to support local and global finance activities, including transaction recording, variance analysis, and financial reporting.
• Experience assisting in month-end and year-end close processes, including posting entries and preparing reconciliations.
• Familiarity with supporting budgeting processes, external audits, and government returns, including document preparation and compliance tracking.
• Proven ability to maintain the integrity of financial records across general ledgers, fixed asset registers, and project-based accounting.
• Proficient user of Microsoft Excel, able to manipulate and analyse data confidently
• Hold an accounting qualification (part-qualified or actively studying towards one)
• Experience with SAP or similar finance systems is an advantage

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 Insurance

• On-site gym and bike facilities

• Group Life Insurance

• Firm funded worldwide personal travel insurance, for you and your family
• Subsidised sport card or public transportation card
• Wide range of training opportunities

Linklaters

Linklaters is a global law firm, with 31 offices in 21 countries worldwide.

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. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal.

What sets us apart

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 remain focused on talent and having the best people which will result in a diverse workforce
• Having got the best people, we want them to feel included, valued and respected so they can perform at their best
• 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.