Sr Associate Strategic Finance - LinkedIn Talent Solutions

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 will be based in Sunnyvale, CA, San Francisco, CA or New York, NY.  

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 Sr Associate who will partner closely with LTS R&D leaders to define product strategy, monitor business metrics performance, proactively identify trends, synthesize insights, and size financial impact of key initiatives. The role is highly cross-functional, indexing heavily on operational rigor and execution against strategic priorities.  

Responsibilities:  

• Builds collaborative relationships with other teams and seeks input and feedback to develop an understanding of their priorities and constraints.  
• Conduct in-depth analysis of our various businesses and develop deep understanding of key value drivers to identify improvement areas and opportunities  
• Manage financial/operational dashboards to monitor business line performance and analyze business drivers  
• Partners with cross-functional stakeholders to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics- oriented perspective, with minimal supervision.   
• Manage financial/operational dashboards to monitor business line performance and analyze business drivers  
• Draw insights and learnings from skills first initiatives by setting targets and analyzing metric performance 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications  

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

Preferred Qualifications  

• Background in management consulting, investment banking, private equity, strategy or growth role within a technology company  
• Natural problem-solver: Experience decomposing and solving real-world business problems, ideally using advanced Excel / SQL skills; able to both delve into the details and engage meaningfully on higher level strategy  
• Effective communication: Excellent communication skills to distill complex thoughts and strategies into simple, actionable recommendations; ability to credibly and compellingly present and debate recommendations with senior leadership  

Suggested Skills

• Financial Acumen   
• Forecasting   
• Data Analysis   
• Problem Solving   
• Project Management   

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.  

The pay range for this role is $96,000 - $156,000. 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 an 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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