Europe Financial Analysis Manager

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 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 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.

Purpose

This role acts as the Commercial Finance Manager and Business Partner across the Europe region (excluding UK & Germany). The role has line management of three Financial Analysts based in Belgium France and Italy. Your remit is to guide and drive the financial analysis of the region. Responsible for the provision of comprehensive analysis and advice to support the Head of Finance Europe individual finance managers in Europe office COOs and the regional partner. There is wide scope to this role with a significant ad hoc element in addition to the regular reporting and analysis both for Europe and working with the other regional teams on global analysis.

The team

You will be welcomed into a diverse and collaborative team who form part of the Finance Function at Linklaters (c.100 in London over 350 globally). The team excel in adding value to the management information shared across the Firm. The most attractive element to a role within our team is that each day can be very different and the ad hoc element of role keeps the day-to-day responsibilities interesting and diverse. Being part of a global team allows us to get involved with various pieces of analysis across a wide network. The team works with a range of individuals across the firm both within London and globally including Partners COOs Business Managers colleagues from other functions across the Firm including HR and Marketing and Finance contacts overseas. Collaboration with other team members is key and something we focus on within the team to ensure continual sharing of knowledge and best practice.

What we are looking for

• Flexible working manner with a strong capability to meet tight deadlines.
• Strong written and oral communication skills as well as the ability to build rapport with senior stakeholders and wider network.
• Excellent financial modelling and data manipulation skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and determination to see tasks through to completion.
• A creative thinker able to work well in a team as well as use own initiative and complete tasks efficiently and independently.
• High degree of proficiency in Excel. Experience using and building dashboards in Tableau (or willingness to learn) is important as well as experience of PowerPoint.
• Good understanding of GenAI tools and the ability to utilise them in the role.
• The ability to lead and motivate a geographically dispersed team to influence senior stakeholders and drive continuous improvement.

Expectations of the role

• Manage the teams workload by ensuring thar work is appropriately prioritised and delivered by the team.
• Prepare various pieces of financial analysis to support strategic decision making across the region. This includes the written and oral presentation of monthly results as well as providing historical trend analysis and modelling future potential performance.
• Develop and maintain standardised reporting/ analytical packs and dashboards across the region
• Deal with ad hoc queries from Partners COOs local finance managers and other teams.
• Work collaboratively with the global/ regional analytical teams. Utilise best practice and standardised analytical dashboards packs/ decks.
• Work with Head of Finance - Europe COOs local finance managers Partners HR and other support teams as part of the planning quarterly reforecasting and annual budgeting exercises.
• Prepare presentations and data for management meetings/office visits/office reviews.
• Grow commercial awareness of the region/ offices and wider firm alongside strong financial understanding in order to provide useful insight and advice to Business Managers COOs Partners and other stakeholders.

Experience required

• Five years experience working in a financial analysis role
• Qualified accountant (preferred)
• Experience working in the legal sector or a Professional Services firm is preferred.
• Someone who has experience with analysing financial data and reporting on financial performance including analysing past performance/variance analysis and forecasting/future projections.
• Highly numerate confident and able to communicate effectively with senior management.

Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution youll be making to our success.

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.