Sr. Manager, Strategic Finance - Infrastructure

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

This role will be based in the South Bay/Mountain View (Hybrid).

We’re looking for a Strategic Finance Senior Manager to partner with leaders of the infra team. In this capacity, you will help define key priorities, initiatives, targets and resourcing for the infra team’s portfolio of initiatives. 

We are seeking out a Strategic Finance leader with strong communication skills and high capacity to build relationships with key stakeholders across R&D leadership teams and across strategic finance. 

You will drive the development of ROI assessment and portfolio allocation processes, including methods for strategic resource allocations and performance tracking of key projects across Infra. In addition, you will strive to continuously produce high quality insights into business performance and expectations. 

You will thrive in leading through critical and complicated processes, bringing order and clarity of approach and communications to drive effective decision making. Your ability to fly at multiple altitudes will manifest in effectively advising the top Infra leaders in the company, ensuring that the strategy is strong and financially sound and appropriate for the ever-changing needs of the business.  

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. 

Responsibilities 

• Partner closely with infrastructure engineering leaders on identifying new infra efficiency initiatives, scoping these out and getting them prioritized/resourced 
• Sizing financial and non-financial impact of existing major projects and transformation initiatives 
• Understanding how infra engineering HC is allocated (to what initiatives) and ensuring they are allocated to highest ROI initiatives; make recommendations on initiative portfolio and reallocation of resources where necessary 
• Design and set targets against true north and signpost metrics for the infra team; performance manage against a subset 
• Track impact of initiatives against key metrics, both individually and in aggregate 
• Validate incremental HC asks 
• Support story telling of infra strategy in exec documents 
• Identify and get prioritized projects to improve the operating model within infra, and between infra and other eng teams 
• Identifies new opportunities for growth within scope of responsibility and adjacent areas and drives strategy development with business partners. 
• Supports team members in operationalizing ideas and drives the development of plans for execution.  
• 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.  
• Partners with cross-functional stakeholders and provides guidance to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics-oriented perspective.  
• Oversees team responsible for supporting performance management by creating, maintaining, and updating models and forecasts.  
• Oversees the development of hypotheses using identified signals, trends, and risks.  
• Ensures resources are available for team members to access data they need to execute ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address business questions.  
• Coaches team members and provides actionable, concrete project-oriented feedback (after a meeting, end-of-project review) to colleagues and/or partners.  

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications 

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

Preferred Qualifications 

• Advanced Excel modeling skills and competency in Word and PowerPoint 
• Diligent, highly accurate with extreme attention to detail, and exceptional