Associate, Strategic Finance - LinkedIn Marketing 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.

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. 

Job Description

Our Monetization Strategic Finance team is searching for a strategic and results-driven Associate to support the LinkedIn Marketing Solutions (LMS) organization. This person will partner closely with the R&D cross-functional team to define produce strategy and roadmaps, performance manage against our business objective, and improve how we operate by setting OKR targets across products. This role specifically will be focused on deepening our understanding of the Feed ecosystem, LMS’s core revenue stream, and will partner closely with R&D teams across both our LMS and organic teams. Key responsibilities would include:  

• Develop and maintain robust financial models for the Feed Ads business, including detailed forecasts. 

• Collaborate closely across product, engineering, data science, and sales teams to understand business drivers, evaluate strategic initiatives, and provide financial guidance for new product launches.  

• Establish and refine KPIs across the Feed to monitor the financial health of our business. Analyze variances and trends against those KPIs to provide actionable insights to senior leadership 

The ideal candidate will be passionate about solving highly complex ambiguous operational and strategic questions within LinkedIn’s R&D team and has exceptional business acumen and the skills to operate autonomously to identify, prioritize, partner, influence and implement high-impact change. 

Responsibilities: 

• Operationalizes ideas and develops plans for execution with support from more senior team members.  

• Supports collaborative relationships with other teams and utilizes input and feedback to develop an understanding of their priorities and constraints. 

• Communicates implications of work (e.g., forecasts, analyses, trends) to management and cross-functional stakeholders with the necessary business context.  

• Leverages insights and data to develop narratives to influence stakeholders with some guidance.  

• Collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics-oriented perspective, with some supervision.  

• Supports performance management by creating, maintaining, and updating basic models and forecasts for assigned metrics.  

• Access, transform, and synthesize data from cross-platform data sources and analyze to assess signals, trends, and risks, with some support from more senior team members. 

• Supports the culture and values of the organization, including diversity, inclusion, and belonging, by collaborating with and helping others and participating in organization-wide events/initiatives.  

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications 

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

Preferred Qualifications 

• Independently capable of seeking information, solving conceptual problems, corralling resources, and delivering results in challenging situations. 

• Experience with digital advertising a plus 

• Experience in SQL a plus. 

Suggested Skills

• Financial Acumen  

• Forecasting  

• Data Analysis  

• Problem Solving  

• Project Management  

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.    

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