Financial Analyst (Executive Finance)

For Linklaters Warsaw, we are currently recruiting for the Financial Analyst (Executive Finance) role.

About the Team
The Executive Finance team provides critical financial insight and analysis to senior stakeholders, including the CFO and the Firmwide Managing Partner, supporting strategic and operational decision‑making. There is wide scope to this role with a significant “ad hoc” element, reflecting the dynamic nature of executive level requests, in addition to the regular reporting and analysis. 

You will be responsible for:

• Providing financial support to senior stakeholders and acting as a point of contact for financial queries. Providing monthly KPIs and supporting commentary on drivers for profitability.

• Preparing various pieces of financial analysis to support strategic decision making across the firm including historical trend analysis and modelling future potential performance.

• Analysing performance against agreed targets, monitoring trends and highlighting issues. Developing options for and implementing solutions to improve financial performance.

• Dealing with ad hoc queries from the CFO, the Firmwide Managing Partner, Partners, Business Managers, Marketing, HR, and other teams.

• Working with Business Managers, Partners, HR, and other support teams as part of the business planning and annual budgeting exercises including updating the moderation dashboard for leadership.

• Preparing presentations and data for ExCom/Partner Monthly Forum/Global Townhalls as well as sector and client financial reporting to support Business Development & Marketing.

• Growing commercial awareness of the firm, external competitor benchmarking data, and a strong financial understanding to provide useful insight and advice to Business Managers, Partners and other stakeholders.

Apply if you:

• Graduated with a university degree in finance or professional accounting course.

• Have min. 3-5 years of experience working in the legal sector or a professional services firm preferred (but other sectors will be considered).

• Are fluent in English.

• Have experience with analysing financial data and reporting on financial performance including analysing past performance/variance analysis and forecasting/future projections.

• Are highly numerate, confident, and able to communicate effectively with senior management.

• Are proficient in Excel and PowerPoint. Experience using and building dashboards in Tableau (or willingness to learn) is a plus.

Location

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

Working hours

• 9:00 - 17:15, 10:00 - 18:15

Type of contract

• Contract of employment (umowa o pracę)

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.