Sr Manager Strategic Finance - LinkedIn Talent Solutions

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

This role will be based in San Francisco, CA or New York, NY.

This role will be responsible for driving LTS portfolio growth by identifying new opportunities, validating initiatives, and operationalizing plans with a focus on field strategy development, setting operating priorities, and ensuring execution.  It influences stakeholders by communicating insights, aligning business objectives, and supporting decision-making through data-driven narratives. The position leads execution by partnering cross-functionally, guiding complex projects, and proactively solving operational challenges. Performance management is achieved through advanced modeling, forecasting, risk analysis, and coaching junior team members to derive actionable insights.  

Responsibilities: 

Strategic Thinking 

• Identifies new opportunities for growth and drives strategy development with business partners.  
• Leads the validation and execution of complex pressure testing for growth opportunities.  
• Operationalizes ideas, develops plans for execution, and identifies ways to automate processes and improve data quality.
• Leads collaborative relationships with other teams and leverages input and feedback to develop a deep expertise. 

Stakeholder Influence 

• Communicates implications of work (e.g., forecasts, analyses, trends) and necessary context to senior management and key stakeholders to drive action.  
• Leverages insights, data, and internal/external trends to develop narratives to influence stakeholders across all levels of the business.  
• Drives alignment by synthesizing problems and communicates point of view to support decision-making on strategic issues. 

Execution & Organization 

• Partners with cross-functional stakeholders and provides guidance to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics-oriented perspective.  
• Provides guidance and expertise to stakeholders by answering a wide variety of complex questions.  
• Drives the development of multiple large workstreams, projects, or operational processes.  
• Proactively identifies obstacles and leverages expertise to recommend innovative solutions. 

Performance Management 

• Supports performance management by creating, maintaining, and updating highly complex models and forecasts. 
• Reviews forecasts, analyzes risks and opportunities, and anticipates effects of internal/external metrics trends in meeting targets. 
• Leverages expert knowledge to develop hypotheses using identified signals, trends, and risks.  
• Coaches and trains junior team members executing ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address highly complex business questions, deriving actionable insights from results.  
• Partners with cross-functional teams to design experiments to close deviations from targets. 

Culture & Values 

• Models and reinforces the culture and values of the organization, including people development and diversity, inclusion, and belonging.  
• Mentors junior team members and provides actionable, concrete project-oriented feedback (after a meeting, end-of-project review) to colleagues and/or partners.  
• Supports career development goals of team members and helps others junior team members navigate transformation, new opportunities and skill development. 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Business Analytics, Finance, or related field AND minimum 8 years of experience in finance, finance accounting, management consulting, investment banking, or related field OR equivalent experience. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• 5+ years of experience in the technology industry. 
• Advanced proficiency in financial and data modeling with the ability to translate analysis into clear, actionable busin