Business Acceptance Specialist (18m mat cover)

For Linklaters Warsaw, we are currently recruiting for the Business Acceptance Specialist role

About the team

Join our global Legal & Risk team responsible for managing risk related to new and existing client and matter intake. Collaborating with lawyers, Business Acceptance lawyers and business teams worldwide, our team covers conflict checking, ethical walls, client terms and wider risk management processes.

You will be responsible for:

• Initiating and analysing conflict search results to identify and help resolve legal and commercial conflicts.

• Registering client engagement terms and responding to engagement terms queries.

• Reviewing information barrier requests and managing ethical walls.

• Analysing and authorising IT requests with privacy or data protection implications.

• Advising Practice on how to respond to audit letter requests.

• Managing share dealing and outside interest applications.

Apply if you:

• Have one to two years of experience in a legal or risk environment, ideally in an international firm.

• Demonstrate strong analytical skills, attention to detail and a proactive, “can do” approach.

• Are fluent in English (C1) and confident using MS Excel and other Microsoft tools.

• Build effective relationships and communicate clearly with stakeholders at all levels.

• Can prioritise competing tasks and work well with multiple deadlines.

• Ability to work as part of an international multicultural team.

• Solid problem-solving skills with a solution-oriented mindset.

Location

• Warsaw (hybrid model – 2 days in the office, Al. Jana Pawła II 22, building Q22)

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 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, 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.

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