Senior GL Specialist

Your role

The General Ledger Specialist performs general accounting activities which are complex and broad in nature, specializing in general ledger and financial reporting.

Key responsibilities and challenges

• 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)
• Perform analysis on specific Balance Sheet accounts and assist local finance teams in clearing of open items
• Maintain Fixed Asset Registers and calculate and post monthly depreciation charges
• Responsible for performing specific Month End Close activities, adhering to the Month End Close timetable and global and office specific Month - End Close deadlines
• Responsible for assigned KPI’s to meet customer needs including meeting financial reporting deadline
• Ensure that service quality is maintained in performing daily operations within global General Ledger Department
• Maintain high quality process documentation
• Build excellent working relationships with the Finance and Shared Service staff in the local offices
• Readiness to participate in process transitions and improvement projects

Our requirements

Experience

• Minimum 2-3 years of professional experience in General Ledger and desirable experience in Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, within other SSC/BPO’s
• Master’s Degree in Finance and Accounting or related faculty
• Additional accounting qualifications, i.e. ACCA or CIMA certification in progress
• Solid knowledge of general accounting principles, practices and procedures
• Understanding of SLAs, KPIs, process documentation, SOPs
• Practical experience in process transition from Local Offices to Shared Service Centre 
• Continues improvement mindset, familiarity with Lean Six Sigma concept

Office skills

• SAP
• Microsoft office
• High competence in MS Excel mandatory

Languages

• Fluent English

Location

• Warsaw - we have hybrid working model with 2 days per week at the office

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 transportation 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