Pricing Advisor

For Linklaters Global Solutions Warsaw, we are currently recruiting for the Pricing Advisor role.

Work arrangements

Hybrid model work: 2 days per week from the office located next to Rondo ONZ

Contract: Employment contract with 3- month probation period

Working hours: The core working hours are between 9 -17.15 and 10-18.15

About the Team
 

You will join Linklaters Global Solutions (LGS) as part of the Finance function. As Pricing Advisor you will support the firm’s global pricing activity by helping to design, document and implement commercially robust fee arrangements for clients. You will be responsible for the administration of the global fee deals process, including updating and filing in a timely manner, prompting action from relevant parties and ensuring appropriate follow up. You will also maintain tools used extensively by the pricing team and the wider firm to develop strong commercial proposals for client panel and matter‑level opportunities.

You will provide proactive support to pricing colleagues by updating financial models and collating reporting to facilitate client fee proposal discussions between the relationship team, the pricing committee and the client. A key part of your role will be to accurately translate client agreements into system‑compatible rate cards, associated system data and agreement summaries, demonstrating commerciality and drawing on a strong understanding of the firm’s systems, their capabilities and their constraints. You will report to the Global Pricing Senior Manager based in the UK.

As Pricing Advisor, you will:

• Be responsible for the administration of the global fee deals process, ensuring timely updating, filing and follow up, and proactively prompting action from relevant stakeholders.

• Maintain and continuously improve the tools and materials used by the pricing team and wider firm to develop robust commercial proposals for client panel and matter-level opportunities, including timely monthly, annual and ad hoc updates to underlying data and assumptions.

• Provide proactive support to pricing colleagues by updating financial models and collating reporting to facilitate client fee proposal discussions between relationship teams, the pricing committee and clients, maintaining high levels of accuracy under pressure.

• Accurately translate agreed client terms and agreements into system-compatible rate cards, associated system data and clear agreement summaries, drawing on a strong understanding of the firm’s financial systems, their capabilities and constraints.

• Support the maintenance of the central pricing intranet site to ensure current, accurate client fee deal information and pricing materials are available firm wide, and build strong links with local pricing experts so that all relevant information is captured, linked and kept up to date.

• Monitor the expiry of existing client fee deals and project manage renewals and new client fee deals in a coherent and commercial manner, coordinating stakeholders so that all relevant information is shared and decisions are made in good time.

• Proactively provide financial modelling and reporting to support pricing, finance, marketing and other colleagues in relation to upcoming fee deal proposals, retaining both a high-level understanding of fee negotiation requirements and a detailed focus on numerical accuracy.

• Gather and consolidate all necessary information from stakeholders to facilitate the implementation of agreed client fee deals in the firm’s financial systems, working closely with the Process & Infrastructure team to confirm implementation and resolve any outstanding issues.

• Review client-proposed outside counsel guidelines and other commercial terms, identifying and escalating points that require clarification, system checks and/or negotiation.

• Working with pricing colleagues, interpret and understand agreed client terms to populate accurate and comprehensive rate cards and summaries of commercial terms for loading into central systems and repositories.

• Perform mid-term reviews and ongoing monitoring of existing commercial arrangements to assess performance against expectations, escalating cases of non-compliance or where actual recoveries or margins differ materially from those modelled.

• Assist in coordinating annual processes to update charge-out rates and cost rates, including running and updating appropriate models, calculations and associated pricing tools.

• Conduct data analysis for the pricing team, generating insights that help focus attention on key pricing issues, risks and opportunities requiring action.

• Respond to ad hoc pricing-related requests from stakeholders, ensuring rapid turnaround times and a very high degree of accuracy in time-sensitive situations.

• Be flexible, open and available to support a “one-team” approach, contributing to projects and initiatives of the pricing team, the wider finance function or the firm, and assisting with client-level pricing activities during periods of peak demand or reduced capacity.

Apply if you:

• Have 1-2 years’ experience in financial data analysis or pricing, ideally gained within a global professional services firm, and hold a degree-level qualification in finance, accounting or a related field.

• Have strong numeracy and financial analysis skills, are comfortable working with rates, margins, recoveries and cost assumptions, and are confident using Excel for data manipulation and analysis (for example lookups, pivot tables, consistency checks and basic scenario analysis).

• Have experience updating and checking financial models and reports with a high degree of accuracy under time pressure, and pay close attention to detail, spotting inconsistencies, gaps or errors in data, models and documentation.

• Can translate commercial or legal terms into structured data (for example rate cards, discounts, caps and other fee parameters), capture these clearly in systems and summaries, and explain your analysis and assumptions in an accessible way to non‑finance colleagues.

• Are highly organised and diligent, able to manage multiple fee deals, deadlines and follow ups while keeping information and files in good order, and can prioritise effectively in a busy environment to deliver rapid, accurate responses to ad hoc requests from stakeholders.

• Take a process‑minded approach, are comfortable following, documenting and improving standard procedures for approvals, implementation and monitoring, and are comfortable working with systems (for example practice management, billing or time recording systems), intranet or content management tools, and new technology.

• Enjoy working collaboratively as part of a “one team” culture, are willing to support wider pricing, finance and firm projects, are flexible during peak periods, and bring a proactive, “can do” attitude, taking ownership of your work, following through to resolution and escalating issues appropriately when needed.

• Are confident using English at C1/C2 level to engage clearly and appropriately with stakeholders at all levels across the organisation, and are open to business travel a few times a year and eligible to obtain a UK visa.

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:

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.