About us: 
Linklaters is a global law firm, providing legal services in 20 countries and through 30 offices.

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.

The Role:
This is a fantastic opportunity for a bright and committed school leaver or recent graduate to join a high-performance global finance team in a world-leading professional services firm and work towards a professional finance qualification.

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

Working closely with tax and finance 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, in-house training programmes, support from friendly, approachable and experienced finance colleagues and full support towards a finance qualification, e.g. ACCA.
 

What we’re looking for:

• An interest in, and commitment to, a career in finance and accounting.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to deal with partners and top management.

• Strong problem-solving skills.

What's on offer:

This is a hybrid role based in our London offices.

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:

Health & Wellbeing

• Private Medical Insurance

• Free in-house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships

• Free onsite GP service and periodic health assessments

Finance

• Pension and flexible savings options

• Income protection and life assurance

• Mortgage advice and will-writing services.

Family & Lifestyle

• Electric car and cycle to work schemes.

• Emergency family care

• Additional holiday/birthday leave.

• Maternity/paternity/shared parental leave.

• Travel insurance and season ticket loan

• Option to join sports and social clubs, as well as our employee networks groups (such as our Gender Equality, With Pride, or Social Mobility Networks)

If you think this role would suit you, please click apply below. We look forward to hearing from you!

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.

Application Policy

Applications and CVs (direct or via agency) are only accepted online via the portal. Queries related to our roles must be directed to the relevant recruitment team and not the partners, practices or stakeholders ([email protected] for legal roles or [email protected] for business team roles).