Sr Financial Analyst, FP&A (Go To Market Foundations)

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 San Francisco or Sunnyvale, California.

At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.

We are looking for a strong Senior Financial Analyst to join our team and support the Go-To-Market (GTM) organization. We work in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment providing financial partnership through planning, insights, and analysis. In this role, you will be responsible for headcount & expense management, and in partnership with the GTM Operations and Pricing team, ensure financial and operational rigor of the business.  This role reports to the Director of Foundations FP&A, who is located in Mountain View.

Responsibilities: 

• Partner closely with business partners and internal FP&A teams to lead and support strategic analyses to address the evolving business dynamics
• Drive month-end close process and rolling forecasts with our business partners in close coordination with FP&A business line leads and Corporate FP&A
• Provide management with insights into drivers of headcount, expense, risks and opportunities
• Prepare financial reporting deliverables (month-end close package, variance explanation, etc) to enable transparency into the business’ performance and drivers.
• Help lead the annual and quarterly planning process
• Collaborate with all key members of the finance and accounting teams to understand the story behind numbers and synthesize results in a concise manner, while highlighting key trends
• Drive efficiencies and continuous improvement by streamlining and automating processes and reporting requirements

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications: 

• 4+ years of financial analysis experience
• BA/BS Degree in Finance or Accounting, or related discipline
• Analytical background working directly in an FP&A, Strategic Finance or Business Operations environment modeling headcount and expenses

 Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Hyperion (Essbase), Oracle Financials
• Strong knowledge of Google Docs, MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint); expert Excel modeling skills strongly preferred
• An understanding of accounting theory and practice (e.g. basic revenue recognition rules, company capitalization policies and proper expense timing)
• Diligent, highly accurate with attention to detail, and exceptional organizational skills
• Excellent communication, analytical, teamwork, organizational, and interpersonal skills
• Proven ability to coordinate and execute projects independently, effectively manage time, prioritize tasks and perform within tight deadlines
• Ability to demonstrate thought-leadership, teamwork, anticipate business needs, and manage relationships with key stakeholders
• Demonstration of critical thinking—ability to question the output of a financial model or investment case and considers options for improvement or provides thoughtful alternatives
• Proactive, results oriented, with a can-do attitude

Suggested skills: 

• Financial analysis & modeling
• Critical thinking
• Stakeholder management
• Problem solving

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.  

The pay range for this role is $86,000 to $140,000. 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

Equal Opportunity Statement