Finance Process Analyst

Linklaters; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A global law firm in London is seeking a Finance Process Analyst. The successful candidate will support Finance systems, ensuring policy compliance and operational efficiency. This role requires 2-3 years of finance experience, proficiency in Excel and SAP, and excellent communication skills. The position offers a hybrid working model and a range of benefits, including private medical insurance and family support programs.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Free in-house fitness centre

Subsidised health club memberships

Income protection

Mortgage advice

Qualifications

• 2-3 years’ experience in finance with exposure to various activities and strong skills.
• Solid understanding of core accounting processes including month-end and reconciliations.
• Proficiency in Excel and experience with SAP.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day support to Finance systems users across global offices.
• Offer expert advice on finance policies and processes.
• Maintain matter management systems and processes.
• Approve and progress authorisation and access requests.
• Conduct periodic authorisation reviews.
• Monitor system error logs, investigate and resolve issues.
• Prepare documentation for policy and process updates.

Skills

Legal billing

eBilling

Time recording

Matter opening

WIP management

Cash collection

Communication skills

Collaboration

Tools

SAP

Excel

Job description

About us:

Linklaters is a global law firm, with 31 offices in 21 countries worldwide.

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. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal.

The Role:

We are currently looking for a Finance Process Analyst to join our Process & Infrastructure (PI) team, serving as the central contact for all finance policy and process matters. This role provides expert guidance to the global finance community, supports regular system maintenance, and drives improvements across Finance systems. Reporting to the Finance Process Manager for Global Finance, you will play a key role in ensuring policy compliance and operational efficiency.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Provide day‑to‑day support to Finance systems users across global offices, resolving system and process‑related queries via ServiceNow and ad‑hoc channels.
• Offer expert advice on finance policies and processes, including guidance on SAP usage.
• Maintain matter management systems and processes, including matter opening, time recording, billing, and debt collection, ensuring timely responses and appropriate testing of changes.
• Approve and progress authorisation and access requests, ensuring compliance with finance policy and segregation of duties.
• Conduct periodic authorisation reviews in collaboration with global finance managers and external auditors.
• Monitor system error logs, investigate and resolve issues, liaising with HR, ISS and other functions as needed.
• Prepare documentation for policy and process updates, contribute to training materials, and support communication of changes.
• Support senior PI colleagues on strategic and BAU projects, including testing new solutions and assisting with user training.

What we’re looking for:

• 2–3 years’ experience in finance, with exposure to a broad range of activities and strong skills in areas such as legal billing, eBilling, time recording, matter opening, WIP management and cash collection.
• Solid understanding of core accounting processes including month‑end, reconciliations, accounts payable and receivable.
• Proficiency in Excel and experience working with SAP and involvement in financial system upgrades or development.
• Familiarity with the professional services industry and working with colleagues across different countries.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a collaborative approach and the ability to manage expectations.

What's on offer:

This role can be based in our London offices, with a hybrid working model available.

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:

Health & Wellbeing

• Private Medical Insurance
• Free in‑house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships
• Free onsite GP service and periodic health assessments

Finance

• Pension and flexible savings options
• Income protection and life assurance
• Mortgage advice and will‑writing services.

Family & Lifestyle

• Electric car and cycle to work schemes.
• Emergency family care
• Additional holiday/birthday leave.
• Maternity/paternity/shared parental leave.
• Travel insurance and season ticket loan
• Option to join sports and social clubs, as well as our employee networks groups (such as our Gender Equality, With Pride, or Social Mobility Networks)

If you think this role would suit you, please click apply below. We look forward to hearing from you!

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.

Application Policy

Applications and CVs (direct or via agency) are only accepted online via the portal. Queries related to our roles must be directed to the relevant recruitment team and not the partners, practices or stakeholders ([e-mail] for legal roles or [e-mail] for business team roles).