Senior General Ledger Specialist

For Linklaters Office in Warsaw, we are currently recruiting for the Senior General Ledger Specialist role.

Your role

• Calculate, prepare and post specific and ad-hoc journal entries as part of Month End Close and day to day operations

• Prepare Bank Reconciliations and Balance Sheet Account Reconciliations (Assets and Liability accounts)

• Maintain Fixed Asset Registers and calculate and post monthly depreciation charges

• Responsible for performing Month End Close activities, in line with global and office specific policies

• Coordinate statuses of deliverables versus the process calendar among other Team Members and reporting them to Clients

• Perform monthly controls of account balances, including ZIBR reconciliation

• Propose and implement process improvements and tools automations to bring efficiency into General Ledger operations

• Ensure that service quality is maintained in performing daily operations within global General Ledger Department

• Build excellent working relationships with the Finance and Shared Service staff in the local offices

• Maintain high quality process documentation

Your experience

• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in finance (preferably in General Ledger Department within other SSC/BPO’s)

• Masters’ Degree in Finance and Accounting or related faculty, additional accounting qualifications nice to have

• Knowledge of general accounting principles, practices and procedures

• Understanding of SLAs, KPIs, process documentation, SOPs

• Office skills: SAP, Microsoft office, high competence in MS Excel

• Fluent English

Linklaters and the Team

Linklaters are 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.

Key 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

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:

Accounting Reconciliation, Audit Reporting, Corporate Financial Reporting, Data Management, Document Management, Financial Accounting, Financial Controlling, General Ledger (GL), Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Internal Controls, Invoice Management, Quality Control (QC), Regulatory Compliance

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.