Accounting Specialist

For Linklaters Office in Warsaw, we are currently recruiting for the Accounting Specialist role to support London Finance Team.

You’ll work in a friendly, international environment where teamwork and learning go hand in hand.

This is a great opportunity for someone starting their career in finance to gain hands-on experience, develop professional skills, and grow towards an Accountant role in a leading global law firm.

You will be responsible for:

Financial Operations & Reporting

• Supporting accounting advisors and managers with day-to-day finance activities and ad hoc analysis.

• Assisting with accurate recording of financial transactions and preparing simple variance reports.

Month-End & Year-End Processes

• Helping with month-end and year-end closing activities.

• Preparing and posting journal entries and assisting with reconciliations and audit documentation.

Budgeting & Project Accounting

• Supporting the budgeting process, including gathering data and preparing basic reports.

• Assisting with accounting and reporting for global projects (e.g. project setup in SAP, tracking costs, preparing summaries).

• Helping maintain accurate financial records, including fixed assets and general ledgers.

Audit & Compliance Support

• Preparing supporting documents for audits and other financial reviews.

• Ensuring data is complete, accurate, and in line with company standards

Apply if you:

• Have 1–2 years of experience in finance, accounting, or a similar area.

• Are curious, proactive, and eager to learn from experienced professionals.

• Feel comfortable working with numbers and data in Microsoft Excel.

• Are studying towards, or planning to start, an accounting qualification (e.g. ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent).

• Have good English communication skills and enjoy working as part of a global team.

• Have used SAP or another finance system before (nice to have, but not required).

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.