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 can be based in San Francisco or Mountain View. 

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 Senior Associate who will be a key strategic business partner to our Online Subscription Businesses. As a member of this team, you will not only partner with cross functional teams, but you will play a central role in decisions affecting these businesses. You will be responsible for maintaining, analyzing, and communicating relevant business KPIs, proactively driving analyses to better inform our forecast models, expanding our various bottoms up models to reflect our business strategies, and providing strategic analyses and recommendations to our key stakeholders.  

Responsibilities: 

• 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.  
• Builds collaborative relationships with other teams and seeks 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 to drive action.  
• Synthesizes problems and communicates point of view to support decision-making on issues related to individual work in smaller group discussions. 
• Communicates with stakeholders to answer a wide variety of complex questions.  
• Proactively identifies obstacles and works to unblock them with minimal support. 
• Supports performance management by creating, maintaining, and updating complex models and forecasts for assigned metrics.   
• Executes ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address ambiguous or complex business questions, deriving actionable insights from results.  
• Proactively seeks out feedback and provides constructive feedback to colleagues.  

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 

• 1 year of experience in the technology industry. 

Suggested Skills 

• Financial Acumen  
• Forecasting  
• Data Analysis  
• Problem Solving  
• Project Management 

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $96,000-$156,000. 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

LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. LinkedIn is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer as described in our equal opportunity statement here: EEO Statement_2020 - Signed.pdf.

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