Sr. Associate, Strategic Finance – Knowledge Marketplace & Flagship Platform

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

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 role can be based in our San Francisco or Mountain View office.

Our Ecosystem Strategic Finance team is seeking a Senior Associate to help drive growth of LinkedIn’s Knowledge Marketplace & Flagship App through objective analysis, operational insights, and strategic initiatives. They will shape the future growth of LinkedIn’s consumer products for our billion-member ecosystem in close partnership with our R&D and product organization.

In this role, they will be responsible for helping craft long and short term product initiative roadmaps through data driven insights, sizing the impact of product and GTM initiatives, and operational performance management to understand & optimize product performance. A strong candidate is equally comfortable and skilled at crafting a thoughtful plan, and rolling up their sleeves to get it done. We are looking for someone who excels at driving execution across multiple senior stakeholders, demonstrates strong ownership to dig deep into highly technical and complex areas to drive impact, and is highly analytical with strong business acumen. 

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Communicates implications of work (e.g., forecasts, analyses, trends) to management and cross-functional stakeholders to drive action.
• 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
• Executes ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address ambiguous or complex business questions, deriving actionable insights from results.
• Independently create, manage and update forecasting models for products, initiatives and the broader LinkedIn ecosystem, in close collaboration with Product teams.  

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+ years of experience in the technology industry.
• Technically proficient (or interest in learning) in SQL, experience a plus. 
• Concise and effective communications: You’re able to articulately present and debate recommendations with cross-functional teams and senior leadership

Suggested Skills

• Communication
• Cross-Team Collaboration 
• Strategic Thinking
• Problem Solving
• Forecasting

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

We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer