Senior General Ledger Specialist

Linklaters Poland Sp. z o.o.; Warszawa; In loco; PLN 90.000 - 130.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Private medical care

In-house fitness centre

Life insurance

Worldwide travel insurance for travel

Multisport club card

Wide training opportunities

Remote work opportunities

Corporate gym

Employee referral program

Descrizione del lavoro

Linklaters Poland Sp. z o.o. in Warsaw seeks an experienced GL Accountant to support month-end close, reconciliations, depreciation, and process improvements within the Global General Ledger function.

You will collaborate with Local Finance and Shared Service teams, ensure SLA compliance, and maintain accurate documentation while driving efficiency. This role offers opportunities to develop in a truly international firm.

Competenze

• 2-3 years of professional experience in finance, preferably in GL/SSC/BPO
• Master's Degree in Finance and Accounting or related field
• Knowledge of general accounting principles, practices and procedures
• Understanding of SLAs, KPIs, SOPs
• Office skills: SAP, Microsoft Office, MS Excel

Mansioni

• Calculate, prepare and post journal entries for Month End Close and daily ops
• Prepare Bank Reconciliations and Balance Sheet Account Reconciliations (Assets and Liabilities)
• Maintain Fixed Asset Registers and post monthly depreciation
• Execute Month End Close activities per global and office policies
• Coordinate deliverables status and report to Clients
• Propose process improvements and tools automation for GL operations
• Act as first point of contact for complex GL queries from Local Finance or LGS
• Ensure service quality in daily GL operations
• Build strong relationships with Finance and Shared Service teams
• Maintain high quality process documentation

Conoscenze

Accounting

Reconciliation

Month-end close

General Ledger

GAAP

Documentation

Process improvement

Formazione

Master's Degree in Finance and Accounting

Accounting qualifications (nice to have)

Strumenti

SAP

Microsoft Office

MS Excel

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Your responsibilities

• 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
• Propose and implement process improvements and tools automations to bring efficiency into General Ledger operations
• Act as first point of contact for more complex General Ledger queries and issues raised by Local Finance Teams or LGS.
• 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

Our requirements

• Minimum 2-3 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

What we offer

• 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

sharing the costs of sports activities

• private medical care
• sharing the costs of foreign language classes
• sharing the costs of professional training & courses
• life insurance
• remote work opportunities
• corporate gym
• corporate sports team
• coffee / tea
• birthday celebration
• employee referral program
• charity initiatives
• family picnics

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
• 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.