Purpose
Our vision is that Linklaters Service Delivery Centre delivers transactional business services within Linklaters and is known for its customer focus, excellent service delivery, transparency and efficiency.
Bringing services together provides the scale required to simplify / standardise / automate processes to continuously improve quality, efficiency and flexibility.
The purpose of this organisation is to:
- Deliver professional business specific services to clients, meeting high level expectations aligned with our firms’ standards and culture.
- Continuously improve the quality and efficiency of assigned services.
Key Dimensions
The role of an Accounts Payable Specialist with German is focused on performing accounting and clerical tasks related to efficient maintenance and processing of transactions regarding firm’s suppliers and employees.
Expectations of the role:
Day to day operations
- Check quality of supporting documentation,
- Communicate with business regarding coding of invoices, follow Firm’s policies and guidelines
- Review and post invoices
- Work with the business to have invoices approved, chase approvers when required
- Set invoices ready for payment
- Reconcile payment and accounts
- Resolve invoice discrepancies
- Maintain vendor files
- Generate regular reports
- Be responsible for assigned KPI’s to meet customer needs
- Perform quality control checks to ensure consistent quality of work
- Participate in regular process reviews with clients and key stakeholders, as needed
- Escalate issues and risks to the manager
What we are looking for:
Location
- Warsaw - we have hybrid working model with 2 days per week at the office
Character
- Customer focused and service orientated
- Quality oriented, attention to detail and accuracy
- Well organized
- Keeps confidentiality
- Flexible, with ability to cope with changing priorities of the team and fluctuating volumes
- Team player
- Good communicator
Education / Qualification
- High School graduate (or higher), alternatively
- An individual coming back to the labour market after longer break (unemployed, maternity leave, travel etc.)
- Finance and Accounting degree (desirable)
Languages
Fluent German and Fluent English
Practical experience
- Willing to long term perform routine, repetitive tasks,
- Wanting and ready to work with numbers
Office skills
- Competent user of Microsoft desktop productivity tools including Excel
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 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
How to Apply
Applications are only accepted online via the portal.
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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.
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