Sr. Manager, Strategic Finance - Core AI

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 can be based in our Mountain View, Sunnyvale, or San Francisco, or NYC offices 

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 R&D Finance Team is seeking a Senior Manager Strategic Finance who is a passionate, strategic, analytical and hands-on leader to provide strategic finance support to our Core AI org, helping them achieve their ambitious goals. As a Senior Manager Strategic Finance, you will play a pivotal role in building the Core AI / Finance relationship, driving cross-functional initiatives that blend strategy and execution. You will create clarity and accelerate the execution of key corporate priorities. Partnering closely with team leadership, you will help clarify strategy, define and track success metrics, and analyze the impact of initiatives the team’s performance, while also providing core financial planning support.  

Responsibilities: 

Strategic Thinking 

• Identifies new opportunities for growth within scope of responsibility and adjacent areas and drives strategy development with business partners.  
• Ensures pressure testing of growth opportunities.  
• Leads collaborative relationships with other teams leverages input and feedback to develop ideas and see opportunities for growth. 

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.  
• Identifies opportunities and develops large work streams, projects, or operational processes.  

Performance Management 

• Reviews forecasts, analyzes risks and opportunities, and anticipates effects of internal/external metrics trends and behavior in meeting targets.
• Oversees the development of hypotheses using identified signals, trends, and risks.  

Culture & Values 

• 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 minimum 8+ years of experience in finance, finance accounting, management consulting, investment banking, or related field OR equivalent experience. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Minimum 5+ years of people management experience. 
• 5+ years of experience in the technology industry. 

Suggested Skills 

• Communication 
• Cross-Team Collaboration  
• Strategic Thinking 
• Influencing for Impact  
• Problem Solving 

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $149,000 to $242,000. 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/benefit

Additional Information

Equal Opportunity Statement 

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