Sr. 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

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 San Francisco or New York.

Our GTM Horizontal Strategic Finance team is searching for a results-driven individual to partner closely with senior leaders across the Marketing Org. We provide actionable insights by bridging operational data and financial outputs in order to build, manage, and operate a world-class Marketing org. The team focuses on partnering directly with our CMSO (Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer) and her leadership team to drive impact across the business. 

The role is highly cross-functional, indexing heavily on the individual’s adaptability & flexibility in balancing operational rigor, generating data-driven insights, and driving implementation of strategic solutions. The ideal candidate has an entrepreneurial bent, and will:

• Provide the “so-whats” and recommend budget allocation & utilization during financial planning and in-quarter management
• Solve highly complex and ambiguous financial, operational & strategic problems within LinkedIn’s Marketing Org
• Have exceptional business acumen and skills to operate autonomously to identify, prioritize, partner, influence and implement high-impact initiatives to support company-wide priorities 

A strong candidate has a mindset of continuous learning. They are able to demonstrate a track record of analytical rigor and synthesized communication, with experience in executive partnership and transformational initiatives.  

Responsibilities: 

Strategic Thinking and Analysis

• Conduct in-depth analysis across all aspects of marketing; develop understanding of key drivers to identify improvement areas
• Advise senior members of Marketing Organization through data-driven recommendations; drive strategic projects to benefit short- and long-term growth opportunities 
• Validate recommendations by executing ad hoc analysis; derive actionable insights to prove/disprove hypothesis and define real-world implications 

Financial Management and Rigor 

• Support Marketing organization by performance managing and optimizing our marketing budget; develop models, metrics, and forecasts to maintain financial rigor
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders; provide actionable insights from financial metrics to answer a wide variety of strategic questions. 
• Proactively identify gaps related to financial metrics, outlook, or processes; remedies gap within defined procedures, taking charge in driving the needed solutions

Stakeholder Management and Influence

• Synthesize problems and communicates  implications of work (e.g., forecasts, analyses, trends) to drive alignment and decision-making on issues within area of responsibility 
• Leverage insights and data to develop narrative; adept in weaving numbers into storyline to influence stakeholders 
• Effectively communicate point of view/ advise to senior stakeholders to deliver a call to action  

Culture & Values 

• Contributes to the culture and values of the organization through organization-wide events and initiatives
• Proactively seeks out feedback and provides constructive feedback to colleagues
• Seeks out new opportunities for career growth and skill development  

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications 

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Business/Data Analytics, Finance, or related field, AND minimum 3 years of experience in high-growth technology companies, finance, accounting, management consulting, investment banking, OR equivalent experience. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• 2+ years of experience in the technology industry
• 1+ years of experience working with marketing teams 
• General understanding of marketing measurement and processes 

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