Finance Process Consultant- 12 month FTC
Linklaters
About us:
Linklaters is a global law firm, providing legal services in 20 countries and through 30 offices.
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.
About the role:
We are seeking a finance process consultant to join our Finance Operations function, supporting our Revenue Lifecycle Centre of Excellence (CoE). This role will play a pivotal part in revenue lifecycle transformation, driving process improvements, optimising efficiency and helping to implement leading technologies across the firm.
Your main responsibilities include:
Support revenue lifecycle transformation by contributing to finance transformation strategies and plans, preparing project roadmaps, and helping to create presentations and communications that set out the transformation vision and objectives.
Analyse and improve finance processes by reviewing and documenting existing revenue processes, identifying bottlenecks and areas for efficiency, and benchmarking against industry standards to prioritise improvements.
Support technology change by helping to evaluate and implement new finance systems, gathering user requirements, and coordinating user acceptance testing to ensure solutions meet operational needs.
Work closely with finance teams, project managers and other stakeholders to gather and document business requirements, run workshops or interviews, and ensure solutions align with firm strategy.
Provide analysis and insight by performing quantitative analysis on finance data, building and maintaining financial models, and supporting business cases for transformation initiatives.
Monitor projects and benefits by maintaining dashboards and status reports, flagging issues to project leadership, and tracking improvement metrics after implementation.
Develop documentation and training by creating Standard Operating Procedures and user guides, preparing engaging training materials, delivering training sessions, and acting as a first point of contact during system rollouts.
Manage risks and drive continuous improvement by identifying and assessing risks, supporting mitigation plans, staying up to date with industry trends and best practices, and sharing relevant insights with the finance operations team.
We are ideally looking for:
- Approximately three or more years of experience in finance and/or finance transformation, ideally with exposure to revenue lifecycle processes.
- Hands-on experience using SAP.
- A strong drive to achieve goals and deliver measurable outcomes, with clear accountability for performance.
- A finance background or experience (beneficial but not essential).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and advanced Excel skills.
- Good prioritisation skills and the ability to manage multiple workstreams.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work effectively with stakeholders at all levels across different cultures and geographies.
- The ability to work well under pressure in a fast-paced, change-oriented environment.
This role is based at the Linklaters London office with a hybrid working model available.
Our 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:
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 Network, 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 (lateralrecruitment@linklaters.com for legal roles or ukbtrecruitment@linklaters.com for business team roles).


