Sr Manager, Strategic Finance - R&D

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 our Mountain View, Sunnyvale, San Francisco, or NYC. 

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. 

LinkedIn’s R&D Finance Team is seeking a Senior Manager, Strategic Finance who is a passionate, strategic, analytical, and hands-on leader to provide strategic finance support to our Core AI and Developer Platforms and Experience (DPX) orgs, helping them achieve their ambitious goals. As a Senior Manager, Strategic Finance, you will play a pivotal role in driving cross-functional initiatives that blend strategy and execution. You will create clarity and accelerate the execution of key corporate priorities. Partnering closely with team leadership, you will help clarify strategy, define and track success metrics, and analyze the impact of initiatives on the team’s performance, while also providing core financial planning support. This role manages one analyst. 

Responsibilities: 

Strategic Thinking 

• Identifies new opportunities for growth within the scope of responsibility and adjacent areas and drives strategy development with business partners. Supports team members in operationalizing ideas and drives the development of plans for execution.  

• Leads collaborative relationships with other teams, leverages input and feedback to develop ideas, and sees opportunities for growth. 

Stakeholder Influence 

• Communicates implications of work (e.g., forecasts, analyses, trends) and necessary context to senior management and key stakeholders to drive action.  

• Drives alignment by synthesizing problems and communicating the point of view to support decision-making on strategic issues. 

Execution & Organization 

• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders and provide guidance to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics-oriented perspective.  

• Identifies opportunities and develops large workstreams, projects, or operational processes.  

Performance Management 

• Oversees team(s) responsible for supporting performance management by creating, maintaining, and updating models and forecasts.  

• Reviews forecasts, analyzes risks and opportunities, and anticipates effects of internal/external metrics trends and behavior in meeting targets. 

Culture & Values 

• Leads a work team in alignment with the culture and values of the organization, including people development and diversity, inclusion, and belonging.  

• Coaches team members and provides actionable, concrete project-oriented feedback (after a meeting, end-of-project review) to colleagues and/or partners.  

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications 

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Business Analytics, Finance, or related field AND minimum 8+ years of experience in finance, finance accounting, management consulting, investment banking, or related field OR equivalent experience. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Minimum 5+ years of people management experience. 
• 5+ years of experience in the technology industry working directly with R&D teams 
• 3+ years of experience in managing performance metrics or KPIs with R&D teams 

Suggested Skills 

• Strategic Thinking 
• Communication 
• Cross-Team Collaboration 
• Influencing for Impact 
• Data Analysis  

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $146,000 to $237,000 

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 per