Finance Optimization Consultant

For Linklaters Service Delivery Centre Warsaw, we are currently recruiting for Finance Optimization Consultant role.

About the Team

Join our global team responsible for enhancing and optimizing finance processes, such as source to pay, order to cash, and record to report. Collaborating with finance professionals, process owners, and technology leads, our team covers strategic finance optimization, process design, and technology enablement.

The Finance Optimization Consultant will play a pivotal role in supporting optimization within the Firm, working on financial operations to drive process improvements, optimize efficiency and implement leading technologies. You will be reporting to Finance Optimization Manager.

You will be responsible for:

• Taking active part in developing and executing finance optimization strategies, contributing to project planning and roadmap creation to ensure clear timelines, milestones and resource allocation.

• Analyzing current finance processes by mapping ‘as-is’ workflows, identifying areas for improvement and benchmarking against industry standards to drive efficiency.

• Supporting the selection and implementation of new finance technologies, including gathering functional and technical requirements, coordinating user acceptance testing, and collecting feedback to ensure solutions meet operational needs.

• Working closely with finance teams and other stakeholders to collect business requirements, organizing workshops and ensure alignment between optimization initiatives and Firm strategy.

• Conducting data analysis and financial modelling to generate actionable insights, identify trends or cost drivers, and support business cases for proposed optimization projects.

• Monitoring the progress of optimization projects by maintaining dashboards and status reports, tracking key performance indicators, and ensuring outcomes are consistent with business objectives.

• Developing comprehensive documentation and training materials—such as Standard Operating Procedures, user guides and engaging learning content—to facilitate the adoption of new processes and systems.

• Delivering training sessions, workshops and support to finance team members to build capability with new tools and processes, acting as a primary point of contact for questions or escalations during rollouts.

• Identifying and assessing risks related to optimization initiatives and work proactively with stakeholders to develop and monitor risk mitigation plans.

• Stay up to date on industry trends, best practices and emerging technologies, sharing insights and recommendations with the wider finance operations team.

Apply if you:

• Have 3 to 5 years’ experience in finance process optimization (PtP, OtC, RtR) and ERP change delivery, ideally in a multinational setting,

• Bring hands-on experience in SAP S/4HANA implementation and finance process optimization,

• Demonstrate experience taking a key role in delivering finance optimisation projects, driving process redesign or supporting the implementation of new systems. Actively seeking out best practices and new solutions,

• Possess a thorough understanding of financial accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls, with sound knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS),

• Are highly proficient in Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel, using these tools for analysis and presentation,

• Hold a degree in Finance, Business or Information Systems,

• Thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, and can manage and prioritize multiple tasks simultaneously,

• Communicate clearly and collaborate effectively across teams and with stakeholders at all levels in global environment.

Location
Warsaw - hybrid model (two days per week at the office), it may require additional presence as per business needs

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 center

• Life insurance

• Worldwide travel insurance for business and non-business travel

• Benefit Multisport club card or subsidized 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 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.

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:

Continuous Improvement, Continuous Optimization, Excel Databases, Financial Accounting, Financial Operations, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, PowerPoint Presentations, Process Improvements, SAP, SAP Implementations

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.