Internal Auditor

For Linklaters Service Delivery Centre Warsaw, we are currently recruiting for the Internal Auditor.

About the team

You will join a collaborative and globally diverse Finance team dedicated to safeguarding Linklaters' financial health and enabling informed decision-making. The team provides critical financial expertise across budgeting, forecasting, reporting, compliance, and strategic planning, supporting the firm's growth and stability. You will work closely with colleagues both locally and internationally, benefiting from a culture that values teamwork, integrity, and ongoing development. This role offers broad exposure, professional growth, and the chance to make a meaningful impact on the firm.

As Internal Auditor you will perform high quality reviews of the firm's control environment, including the operational effectiveness of global policies and procedures. Your work will focus on assurance over the firm's financial and operational processes, identifying risks, sharing best practice and recommending solutions. You will work closely with stakeholders across the Firm's global offices and coordinate with external auditors to ensure effective risk management and process improvement.

Your role will include:

• Planning, organising, and monitoring internal audit operations in accordance with the annual audit plan.

• Evaluating the effectiveness of financial and operational processes, controls, and risk mitigation strategies.

• Delivering audit procedures by identifying and defining issues, developing criteria, analysing evidence, and documenting findings.

• Using data analytics and visualisation tools (such as Tableau) to test controls, identify risks, and support audit conclusions.

• Ensuring compliance with legal, professional, and firm-specific standards, including Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) accounts rules.

• Preparing clear audit reports and presentations for senior management and the Risk Committee.

• Providing practical recommendations to mitigate risk, strengthen controls, and enhance efficiency.

• Tracking management responses to audit actions and ensuring timely resolution.

• Conducting ad hoc investigations into identified or reported risks and potential fraud.

• Supporting process improvement and the development of new internal audit procedures.

• Liaising with external auditors during SRA audits.

Apply if you:

• Offer 2 to 3 years of experience in internal or external audit & risk management, ideally within professional services or the legal sector,

• Have strong knowledge of audit processes, risks and controls,

• Are proficient in using data analytics tools (e.g. Tableau) for audit and reporting,

• Communicate fluently in English, and confidently engage with stakeholders at all organizational levels, we work in international environment and this position requires travelling abroad,

• Have strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills,

• Proven ability to drive process improvements,

• Demonstrate a client-centric approach and a drive for measurable results,

• Are open to business travel several times a year.

Qualifications:

• Professional accounting qualifications desirable (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or local equivalent).

Location
Warsaw - hybrid model (two days per week at the office)
 

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:
 

• Employment contract with 3 months probationary period

• Private medical care

• Free in-house fitness center

• Life insurance

• Worldwide travel insurance for business and non-business travel

• Benefit Multisport club card or subsidized travel card

• Wide range of training opportunities

About Linklaters

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 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.

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:

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.