Senior Financial Analyst – Europe

The Europe Finance team is looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to support strategic decision-making across our European offices through high-quality financial analysis, reporting and business insight.

Working as part of the Europe Financial Analysis team, you will provide timely, insightful and commercially focused analysis to offices across the region. You will work closely with Partners, COOs, Finance Managers and business leaders, helping to shape decision-making and business performance.

You will join a small and highly collaborative European team, working closely with colleagues across several jurisdictions. As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will act as a subject matter expert and play a key role in enhancing the quality, consistency and standardisation of analytical output across the European network.

This is a highly visible role, offering broad exposure to senior stakeholders, regular reporting responsibilities and a wide variety of strategic and ad hoc projects across Europe.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare insightful financial and business analysis to support strategic decision-making across the European region.
• Analyse monthly financial performance, identify trends, explain variances and present key findings to stakeholders.
• Develop financial models, forecasts and scenario analysis to support planning, budgeting and reforecasting exercises.
• Respond to ad hoc requests from Partners, COOs, Finance Managers, HR, Marketing and other business teams.
• Prepare presentations and management information for leadership meetings, office reviews and business planning discussions.
• Work collaboratively with regional and global analytical teams to share best practice and deliver consistent reporting standards.
• Build and maintain analytical dashboards and reporting tools using Excel, Tableau and other data visualisation platforms.
• Identify opportunities to improve reporting processes, automation and data quality across the European network.
• Leverage emerging technologies, including Microsoft Copilot and AI-enabled tools, to enhance efficiency and analytical insight.
• Develop a strong commercial understanding of the firm, its offices and its clients in order to provide meaningful and actionable recommendations.

About You

• At least five years of experience in financial analysis, FP&A, management reporting or business analytics.
• Strong financial modelling, forecasting and data analysis skills.
• Advanced Excel capabilities, including financial modelling and complex data manipulation.
• Experience using reporting and visualisation tools such as Tableau, Power BI or similar.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to build effective relationships with senior stakeholders across an international organisation.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to work effectively across international teams.
• A collaborative, proactive and solution-oriented approach, combined with excellent attention to detail.
• Experience in a professional services environment is desirable; previous exposure to the legal sector would be advantageous.
• A genuine interest in emerging technologies and AI tools, including Microsoft Copilot, and their practical application within financial analysis and business decision-making.
• Fluency in English and Spanish is essential.

About Linklaters

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 differences 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 mindset.

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.

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.

If you have any questions, please contact our Recruitment Team at [email protected].

Technical Skills:

Business Intelligence (BI) Reporting, Business Partner Support, Communication, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Financial Analysis, Financial Modeling, Insight Generation, Management Reporting, Scenario Planning, Stakeholder Management

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.