Sr. Manager Strategic Finance - AI Transformation

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, Mountain View, 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’re looking for a Strategic Finance Senior Manager to partner with leaders across the company on various transformation initiatives, including our AI strategy. In this capacity, you will help define key priorities, initiatives, targets, and resourcing for LinkedIn’s companywide AI strategy and future cross-functional efforts (spanning Finance, Legal, Global Talent, and Comms) 

We are seeking out a Strategic Finance leader with strong communication skills and high capacity to build relationships with key stakeholders across different leadership teams (especially our Talent, Legal, Comms, and Finance organizations) and across the strategic finance team. You will be part of the G&A Strategic Finance leadership team. The G&A Strategic Finance team’s mission is to help the teams that run LinkedIn – Global Talent, Finance, Legal, and Comms – to make the right strategic financial decisions. 

You will thrive in leading through critical and complicated processes, bringing order and clarity of approach and communications to drive effective decision making. Your ability to fly at multiple altitudes will manifest in effectively advising top leaders in the company, ensuring that the strategy is strong, financially sound, and appropriate for the ever-changing needs of the business.  

Responsibilities: 

Strategic Thinking 

• Identifies new opportunities for growth and drives strategy development with business partners.  
• Leads the validation and execution of complex pressure testing for growth opportunities.  
• Operationalizes ideas, develops plans for execution, and identifies ways to automate processes and improve data quality.  
• Leads collaborative relationships with other teams and leverages input and feedback to develop deep expertise. 

Stakeholder Influence 

• Communicates implications of work (e.g., forecasts, analyses, trends) and necessary context to senior management and key stakeholders to drive action.  
• Leverages insights, data, and internal/external trends to develop narratives to influence stakeholders across all levels of the business.  
• Drives alignment by synthesizing problems and communicating points of view to support decision-making on strategic issues. 

Execution & Organization 

• Partners with cross-functional stakeholders and provides guidance to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics-oriented perspective.  
• Provides guidance and expertise to stakeholders by answering a wide variety of complex questions.  
• Drives the development of multiple large workstreams, projects, or operational processes.  
• Proactively identifies obstacles and leverages expertise to recommend innovative solutions. 

Performance Management 

• Supports performance management by creating, maintaining, and updating highly complex models and forecasts. 
• Reviews forecasts, analyzes risks and opportunities, and anticipates effects of internal/external metrics trends in meeting targets. 
• Leverages expert knowledge to develop hypotheses using identified signals, trends, and risks.  
• Coaches and trains junior team members executing ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address highly complex business questions, deriving actionable insights from results.  
• Partners with cross-functional teams to design experiments to close deviations from targets. 

Culture & Values 

• Models and reinforces the culture and values of the organization, including people development and diversity, inclusion, and belonging.  
• Mentors junior team members and provides actionable, concrete project-oriented feedback (after a meeting, end-of-project review) to colleagues and/or partners.  
• Supports career development goals of team members and helps others junior team members