Associate, Strategic Finance COE (OPEX)

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 either San Francisco, Sunnyvale, or New York.

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. 

The Strategic Finance Center of Excellence (COE) is a newly formed team focused on centralizing, standardizing, and modernizing key financial operations to unlock scale, accuracy, and strategic capacity across LinkedIn. As we build for the future, this team will act as business process owners, driving design and continuous improvement across high-impact financial workflows such as accrual processes and headcount & position management. The associate will be primarily focused on expense management workstreams to begin, with additional scope coming over time. This team will also support the discovery and adoption of new tools and tackle automation opportunities. 

We are seeking a detail-oriented and process-minded Associate to join the COE. This individual will take ownership of end-to-end workstreams, working to identify inefficiencies, implement scalable solutions, and embed best practices across finance. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in complexity, enjoys solving operational challenges, and is skilled at transforming fragmented and siloed processes into structured, scalable solutions through thoughtful design and cross-functional collaboration. 

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. 

Responsibilities 

• Act as a business process owner for designated financial workstreams with a focus driving on consistency, scalability, and operational excellence 

• Design and redesign processes to enhance accuracy, reduce manual effort, and improve end-to-end efficiency across financial operations 

• Operationalize processes and support new ideas to improve overall expense management and reporting, with the support from more senior team members 

• Identify obstacles within immediate scope and make recommendations to leadership for improvement opportunities 

• Leverage insights and data to develop narratives and influence stakeholders with some guidance 

• Collaborate with functional finance partners and systems teams to define and drive adoption of best practices 

• Deliver clear, data-informed narratives and presentations to support strategic and operational decision-making    

• Own ad-hoc analysis to test hypotheses and answer specific business questions    

• Contribute to the development of a central repository for documentation, including maintaining processes for updates and revisions    

• Participate in training sessions, workshops, and onboarding efforts to promote process understanding and adherence across teams 

• Support the culture and values of the organization, including diversity, inclusion, and belonging, by collaborating with and helping others; Participate in organization-wide events/initiatives  

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications 

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Business Analytics, Finance, or related field AND a minimum of 1 year of experience in finance, finance accounting, management consulting, or related field OR equivalent experience. 

Preferred Qualifications  

• Experience in process design or redesign, particularly in financial operations such as expense management (e.g., accrual processes) 

• Strong analytical skills with proficiency in Excel and data tools (e.g., SQL, PowerBI, Tableau); familiarity with Python or R is a plus 

• Effective communication and stakehold