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

Key responsibilities and challenges:

• Review and post purchase invoices, claims for business trip expenses, staff expenses and petty cash, ensuring correct coding, appropriate approvals and compliance with Firm policies and local regulations.

• Review the quality and completeness of supporting documentation for all invoices and expenses, and follow up with business stakeholders promptly on any missing or unclear information.

• Prepare invoices for payment runs, post bank statements and reconcile payments, ensuring timely and accurate settlement of liabilities.

• Perform regular reconciliations of bank, vendor and selected general ledger accounts, investigate differences and support the resolution of issues.

• Maintain accurate vendor records in SAP, including onboarding new vendors, updating details and performing periodic data checks.

• Support the local finance manager with month‑end and year‑end close activities.

• Prepare management reports and variance analysis to support monitoring of costs, budgets and departmental spending.

• Support the calculation, booking and monitoring of recharges between the LGS and receiving entities, in line with agreed allocation and calculation methods, and follow up on queries from stakeholders.

• Act as the first point of contact for finance queries from business teams and LGS employees, providing guidance on accounting and expense matters and escalating complex issues to the manager as needed.

• Support internal and external audit activities by preparing requested documentation, explaining standard processes and ensuring accurate, timely responses to the auditors.

Apply if you:

• Feel confident using English at C1 level or above and can communicate clearly with stakeholders at different levels across the organisation

• Have a degree in finance, accounting, economics or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

• Have solid practical experience in accounting (around five years)

• Have a good understanding of Polish accounting and tax regulations (UoR, VAT, CIT)

• Have experience with travel and employee reimbursement processes under Polish regulations

• Are comfortable using Microsoft Office applications

• Use Microsoft Excel confidently (for example, formulas and pivot tables)

• Have worked with SAP or a similar ERP system, or feel ready to learn it quickly

Type of contract:

• Contract of employment

Location:

• Warsaw (hybrid model – min. 2 days per week at the office

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 centre

• Life insurance

• Worldwide travel insurance for business and non-business travel

• Benefit Multisport club card or subsidised 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.

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.