Sr. Manager 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 our San Francisco, CA or Mountain View, CA office.

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 finance support to our Developer Platforms and Experience org. The DPX team is a newly created team within Engineering focused on creating tools and experiences that will ensure the rest of the R&D organization is as productive as possible and has the strategic capabilities that LinkedIn requires. In this exciting role, you will create the finance partnership with this new team and focus on helping the team deliver on its charter.

The role is highly cross-functional, blending strategy & execution, creating clarity and speed to execution of needle-moving corporate priorities.  The ideal candidate will be passionate about solving highly complex ambiguous operational questions within LinkedIn’s R&D team, and has exceptional business acumen and the skills to operate autonomously to identify, prioritize, partner, influence and implement high-impact change.

Responsibilities:

• Drive data-driven analysis, size opportunities, develop understanding of key drivers to identify areas of improvement and prioritize strategic opportunities for the DPX team
• Partner closely with DPX leadership to define success criteria for the team, design and set targets against true north and supporting metrics, and manage ongoing process to track, analyze, and deliver insights from the metrics to influence the strategy of the DPX team
• Track impact of initiatives against key metrics
• Communicates implications of work (e.g., forecasts, analyses, trends) and necessary context to senior management and key stakeholders to drive action.
• Partners with cross-functional stakeholders and provides guidance to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics-oriented perspective.
• Oversees the development of hypotheses using identified signals, trends, and risks.
• Manage the annual planning, recurring forecasting cycles, and month-end close processes, providing valuable insights and analysis. 
• Influence and manage senior leadership, synthesize exec-ready communications, providing thought leadership to align on the vision prioritize investments
• Manage analyst providing finance support to the DPX team

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5 years of people management experience. 
• 5 years experience in the technology industry working directly with R&D teams.

Suggested Skills  

• Communication 
• Cross-Team Collaboration  
• Strategic Thinking 
• Influencing for Impact  
• Data Driven Decision Making

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 performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits. 

Additional Information

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