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​Linklaters is a world leading “Magic Circle” law firm specialising in advising the world’s leading companies, financial institutions and governments on their most challenging transactions and assignments. With offices in major business & financial centres, they deliver an outstanding service to their clients anywhere in the world

Our history with Linklaters
Harcourt Matthews have been proactively involved with and retained as a preferred supplier for well over 20 years+

Situation & Objective
Harcourt Matthews are a Recruitment Business Partner to their Business Support Services disciplines, which include: – 

  • Business Managers

    (BM, COO)

  • Business Development, Client/Customer relationship

  • Business Transformation, Change, Innovation & Service Excellence

    • Project Management (PM)

      • Legal Project Management

        (LPM)

      • Legal Technology

        – eDiscovery, eDisclosure etc

      • Program Management Office

        (PMO)

      • Information Technology

        Project Management

  • Pricing (Contract bids, tenders & proposals)

  • Finance & Accounting, Group reporting, Planning & budgeting, Business Partnering & MI/BI Reporting

  • Partnership Finance & Tax

  • HR & Talent/Recruitment

  • Marketing – Recruitment, Communications and Research

  • Strategy – Innovation, Initiatives and Business Analysis

Actions
Sourcing and placing people in interim and permanent roles, sustaining the establishment and evolution of various functions & skills lines including: – 

  • Business Development, Client relationship Managers and Practise Group Business Managers

  • Finance & Accounting

  • International Tax

  • Partnership Tax & Accounting 

  • Pricing

  • Project Management, including Legal Project Management (LPM), ISS Project Management (ISS) and Legal Technology & eDiscovery etc. (LTeD)

  • Strategy & Business Transformation

Examples: –

In Strategy & Transformation
We have provided a recruitment advisory service aiding in the definition of needs in the short, medium and long term e.g. which initially involved building a small, highly focused Strategy team of two, which would eventually evolve into a team of twenty+ individuals, encompassing not only strategy and marketing but also business planning & analysis

In Finance & Accounting
We have provided a recruitment advisory service aiding in the definition of needs in the short, medium and long term which involved supporting the development of the London & HQ Commercial and Financial Reporting Finance teams

In Project Management
We have provided a recruitment advisory service aiding in the definition of needs in the short, medium and long term which involved supporting the development of the: –  

  • LPM team from its pilot to it current BAU state a team building up to 30+ individuals

  • ISS team in its growth and current BAU state a team of 15+ individuals

  • LTeD team in its growth and current BAU state a team of 20+ individuals

Harcourt Matthews established & utilised various recruitment methods from advertising campaigns and networking as well as database contingency candidate sourcing processes

Results & Benefits for Linklaters using Harcourt Matthews
As one of two/three preferred suppliers Harcourt Matthews has worked closely with the HR & Recruitment team and, more importantly, met with and contributed in briefings led by the Skills Line Management teams, consequently everybody has been on message, advice has been sought & given and challenges dealt with, complimenting the recruitment partnership & process which has led to speedier recruitment and Harcourt Matthews delivering results as a preferred supplier

Harcourt Matthews have successfully recruited teams and has an ongoing brief to identify talent in the market place to back fill those moving on into the organisation alongside provision of advice on salaries and market conditions
Roles we have recruited for recently– Interim, temporary & permanent salaries or FTC £50k – £120k and include:

Project Management – various roles

  • Legal Project Manager

  • Business Process Manager

  • Strategic Project Manager

  • Project Manager (Interim FTC contract)

Business Management – various roles

  • Client Relationship Manager

  • Business Development Analyst

  • Business Manager

  • COO Tokyo, Japan

  • Customer Relationship Manager

  • Executive Assistant to Managing Director

Marketing – various roles

  • Marketing Analyst

  • Marketing Process Improvement Manager

Partnership Tax & Accounting – various roles

  • Head of Partnership Finance

  • Expat Tax Advisor (Interim FTC contract)

  • International Tax Manager

  • Partnership Tax Manager

  • Partnership Reconciliation Accountant & Tax (Interim FTC contract)

  • Partnership Accountant

  • Partnership Accounting Manager

  • Tax Accountant

  • Tax Advisor

  • Treasury Advisor

Finance 

  • Financial Controller

  • Division Finance Manager

  • Commercial Pricing Accountant

  • Finance Business Partners

  • Financial & Management Accountants (Permanent & Interim FTC contracts)

  • Financial Accounting Manager (Interim FTC contract)

  • Financial Analyst – London Division 

  • Financial Analyst – Group / European Business Planning

  • Group Reporting Accountants/Analyst

  • Payroll Accounting Operations Supervisor

Strategy – Analysts & Managers– various roles