Associate, Strategic Finance - Consumer Forecasting & Analytics

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. 

We are looking for a Strategic Finance Associate to operate, manage, and improve the forecasting and analytics for our key consumer metrics. You will manage complex forecasting models, monitor and analyze metrics trends, explain variance drivers and other consumer engagement insights to stakeholders, while continuously improving performance management processes to ensure efficiency and effectiveness. Exceptional attention to detail, strong analytical and forecasting skills, proactive communication skills, and an ability to meet tight deadlines will be critical for success in this role. 

Responsibilities: 

• Supports performance management by creating, maintaining, and updating complex models and forecasts for consumer ecosystem metrics.  

• Access, transform, and synthesize data from cross-platform data sources and analyze to assess signals, trends, and risks, with some support from more senior team members. 

• Leverages comprehensive knowledge to develop hypotheses. Executes ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address well-defined business questions, deriving actionable insights from results. 

• Operationalizes ideas and develops plans for execution with support from more senior team members. 

• Collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics-oriented perspective, with some supervision. Supports collaborative relationships with other teams and utilizes input and feedback to develop an understanding of their priorities and constraints. 

• Communicates implications of work (e.g., forecasts, analyses, trends) to management and cross-functional stakeholders with the necessary business context. 

• Develops standard workstreams and operational processes according to defined procedures. Begins to identify obstacles within immediate scope and makes recommendations. 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications 

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

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience in the technology industry. 

• Experience building complex forecast models using excel, SQL and other tools. 

Suggested Skills 

• Forecasting  

• Data Analysis  

• Communications  

• Project Management 

• SQL 

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $78,000 to $126,000. 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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