Partnership Finance Assistant Accountant

For Linklaters Poland, we are currently recruiting for the Partnership Finance Assistant Accountant role.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a bright, confident and committed individual to join a high-performance global finance team in a world-leading professional services firm and potentially work towards a professional finance qualification.

As an Assistant Accountant in our Partnership Finance team, you will have a pivotal role in providing a high-quality service to the firm's 500 equity partners across the world through a wide range of regular and ad hoc processes. 

You will be part of a team responsible for allocating and paying out the firm's global profits to partners, managing the firm's capital and supporting partners in most financial aspects of their partnership lifecycle from election to cessation and beyond. 

Working closely with finance and tax colleagues at the London head office and across the globe, this role is varied, challenging and complex. 

It offers opportunities to gain a wide range of skills and experience, through on-the-job training, support from experienced professionals and, after 6 – 12 months, full support for a finance qualification (ACCA).

We are looking for:

• Excellent numeracy, interpersonal and communication skills, including fluent English

• A dynamic, proactive and cooperative approach to work

• Strong problem-solving skills

• Effective time management

• A focus on high standards and customer satisfaction

• A desire for continuous professional and personal development.

The fully remote role will be based in Poland and will require close cooperation through ad hoc and planned daily Teams calls with other Partnership Finance team members based in the UK and Poland. 

Training and support will be provided through both Teams and planned visits to London.

As well as excellent opportunities for training and long-term development, the role has a competitive salary and a market-leading range of benefits, including private medical insurance, life and travel insurance.

Key relationships

In department

• Partner Payments team

• Head of PF, PF Managers and PF team

• Tax Managers and team

• GHO Finance contacts, particularly Treasury and payment authorisers

• Finance contacts around the world

In the firm

• Partners

External

• Capital lending banks

Linklaters and the Team

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 recognize 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.
 

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 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.