Sr. Associate Strategic Finance

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 LinkedIn's offices in San Fransico or Sunnyvale.

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.

This Strategic Finance Senior Associate role is an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic GTM Horizontals team, operating at the intersection of our global go-to-market functions and Lines of Business (LOBs). You will work on developing and driving consolidated financial reporting across these areas and support our forecasting and planning processes. This role blends strategy and finance, helping identify and solve business challenges with data-driven solutions.

You will work closely with cross-functional teams and senior leadership to drive key financial insights and support business decision-making. This role will play a critical role in monthly close and forecasting cycles, global performance reporting, and developing clear, executive-ready business narratives. This position also contributes to ad hoc strategic initiatives and high-impact analyses. In addition to managing specific GBO budgets, including administrative and events budgets, this role will serve as a central point of coordination across GTM Ops and Pricing in the Global Business Organization (GBO), ensuring strong financial governance, visibility, and operational rigor. If you're passionate about finance, data, and the tech industry, this is a great opportunity to grow your career with a leading global technology company.

Responsibilities:

• Financial Analysis: Prepare and analyze monthly, quarterly, and annual financial performance reports across GTM Ops, Pricing and GBO admin and events. Identify trends, variances, and opportunities for performance improvements, including tracking of headcount and expense drivers.

• Budgeting & Forecasting: Assist in the budgeting and forecasting processes by collecting and consolidating inputs across teams. Support the development and monitoring of financial forecasts and budget-to-actual analysis.

• Headcount Planning & Pacing: Track and manage headcount movements, including approvals, attrition, backfills and transfers across teams. Monitor headcount pacing against plan and forecast, and assess associated cost implications.

• Data Management & Consolidation: Gather, clean, and organize financial data from multiple sources, ensuring data accuracy and integrity to support reporting, forecasting and decision-making, including reconciling differences across teams and reporting structures. Act as the central point of contact for budget tracking and reporting. 

• Financial Modeling & Scenario Analysis: Contribute to financial models that evaluate business scenarios, providing insights to senior leadership to inform strategic decisions and resource allocation.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with various teams across GBO and Strategic Finance to collect data, share financial insights, and support strategic initiatives.

• Process Improvement & Operational Excellence: Design and implement scalable processes and tools to improve efficiency in recurring financial workflows. Develop standardized templates for reporting and shareouts, and drive continuous improvements in financial operations and team processes.

• Ad-Hoc Reporting & Analysis: Support senior leadership with ad-hoc analyses, including budget requests, expense tracking, and strategic deep dives. Provide timely and actionable insights to support decision-making.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Business Analytics, Finance, or a related field and 3+ years of experience in finance, financial accounting, management consulting, investment banking, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience using Microsoft Excel for financial modeling, data analysis, or reporting.

Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience in the technology industry.
• Experience with financial reporting a