Associate, Strategic Finance - Trust

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

The location of this role will be San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, or New York.  

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.  

LinkedIn’s Strategic Finance team is seeking a highly strategic, driven, and analytical Associate to tackle high-priority strategic and executional questions on digital Trust and Safety. This individual will partner with a wide range of cross functional teams from Product, Engineering, Legal, and Design to ensure that LinkedIn upholds the highest standards of data protection and member transparency.  This is a great role for someone with a passion for the intersection between policy, technology, and strategy, and will require an entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to work independently to drive impact. 

Responsibilities: 

• Strategic thinking: Contribute to the development of strategies for digital Trust and Safety, ensuring regulatory compliance and a “member first” approach 
• Be an expert: Develop in-depth understanding of the privacy and regulatory landscape and implications for the broader LinkedIn product ecosystem 
• Generate insights: Lead in-depth analytical efforts in an unstructured environment to generate novel insights on key value drivers and improvement opportunities 
• Influence decision-making: Serve as a strategic advisor and thought partner to cross-functional Trust leadership, influencing decision-making on key strategy and operations issues 
• Manage performance: Define key metrics, forecast performance, establish goals, and identify / diagnose / resolve performance issues 
• Drive operational excellence: Work with a broad set of partners to ensure the successful delivery of key cross-functional priorities by sharing knowledge, driving efficient collaboration, proactively flagging risks or bottlenecks, and recommending course corrections as appropriate 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications 

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Business Analytics, Finance, or related field AND minimum 1 years of experience in management consulting, finance, finance accounting, investment banking, or related field OR equivalent experience. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Practical experience: Experience with and/or genuine passion for technology and online privacy 
• Natural problem-solver: Experience decomposing and solving real-world business problems, ideally using advanced Excel / SQL skills; able to both delve into the details and engage meaningfully on higher level strategy 
• Effective communication: Excellent communication skills to distill complex thoughts and strategies into simple, actionable recommendations; ability to credibly and compellingly present and debate recommendations with senior leadership 
• Initiative and ownership: Ability to act with limited oversight on day-to-day basis, balance multiple priorities, and work collaboratively in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment 

Suggested Skills:  

• Financial Acumen  
• Forecasting  
• Data Analysis  
• Problem Solving  
• Project Management  

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.     

The pay range for this role is $78,000 - $126,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.     

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.  

Additional Information

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