Sr. Associate, Strategic Finance - LinkedIn Talent 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.

Job Description

This role will be based in Sunnyvale, CA, San Francisco, CA or New York, NY.

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.

We are looking for a Strategic Finance Sr Associate who will partner closely with LTS R&D leaders to define product strategy, inform initiative prioritization, set business metrics targets, monitor metrics performance, proactively identify trends, and synthesize and communicate insights. The role is focused on our Enterprise Jobs product and is highly cross-functional, indexing heavily on operational rigor and execution against strategic priorities.
 

Responsibilities: 

Strategic Thinking 

• Learns to identify new opportunities for growth within a limited scope and supports strategy development with business partners.  

• Validates and executes pressure testing of growth opportunities.  

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

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

Stakeholder Influence 

• Communicates implications of work (e.g., forecasts, analyses, trends) to management and cross-functional stakeholders to drive action.  

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

• Synthesizes problems and communicates point of view to support decision-making on issues related to individual work in smaller group discussions. 

Execution & Organization 

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

• Communicates with stakeholders to answer a wide variety of complex questions.  

• Exercises judgment within defined procedures to develop workstreams and operational processes.  

• Proactively identifies obstacles and works to unblock them with minimal support. 

Performance Management 

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

• Access, transform, and synthesize data from cross-platform data sources and analyze to assess signals, trends, and risks. 

• Leverages advanced knowledge to develop hypotheses using identified signals, trends, and risks.  

• Executes ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address ambiguous or complex business questions, deriving actionable insights from results.  

• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to design experiments to close deviations from targets. 

Culture & Values 

• Contributes to the culture and values of the organization including diversity, inclusion, and belonging, through organization-wide events and initiatives.  

• Proactively seeks out feedback and provides constructive feedback to colleagues.  

• Seeks out new opportunities for career growth and skill development. 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications 

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Business Analytics, Finance, or related field AND minimum 3+ years of experience in finance, finance accounting, management consulting, investment banking, or related field OR equivalent experience. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Background in management consulting, investment banking, private equity, strategy or growth role within a technology company   

• Natural problem-solver: Experience decomposing and solving real-world business problems, ideally using advanced Excel / SQL skills; able to both delve into the det