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 San Francisco 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. 

We are seeking a highly analytical and driven Associate, Strategic Finance to help drive global financial planning, reporting, and decision support for LinkedIn Talent Solutions. This role sits within the Business Insights & Analysis team and partners closely with senior finance leaders and cross-functional stakeholders across Sales and Operations. 

The Associate will play a key 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. The role offers strong exposure to SaaS finance fundamentals, executive-level storytelling, and the operational dynamics of a global business. 

Responsibilities: 

Strategic Thinking 

• Operationalizes ideas and develops plans for execution with support from more senior team members.  
• Supports collaborative relationships with other teams and utilizes input and feedback to develop an understanding of their priorities and constraints. 

Stakeholder Influence 

• Leverages insights and data to develop narratives to influence stakeholders with some guidance.  
• Synthesizes problems and communicates point of view to support decision-making on issues related to individual work in smaller group discussions. 

Execution & Organization 

• Collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics-oriented perspective, with some supervision.  
• Develops standard workstreams and operational processes according to defined procedures. 

Performance Management 

• Access, transform, and synthesize data from cross-platform data sources and analyze to assess signals, trends, and risks, with some support from more senior team members. 
• Executes ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address well-defined business questions, deriving actionable insights from results.  

Culture & Values 

• Supports the culture and values of the organization, including diversity, inclusion, and belonging, by collaborating with and helping others and participating in organization-wide events/initiatives.  
• 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 1 years of experience in finance, finance accounting, management consulting, investment banking, or related field OR equivalent experience. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience working with financial systems and SQL to query, manipulate, and reconcile large datasets 
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy 

Suggested Skills 

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

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $80,000 to $128,000. 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. LinkedIn considers qu