Senior Associate of Strategic Finance

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.

Our Monetization Strategic Finance team is searching for a strategic and results-driven Senior Associate of Strategic Finance, Marketplace Performance for LinkedIn Sales Solutions (LSS). This person will partner closely with senior R&D leaders to craft our long-term term strategy, drive focus efforts on top priorities and shape the future growth of LSS. A strong candidate will be able to demonstrate a track record of strategic insight, analytical rigor, and synthesized communication.

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 and strategic 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:

• Identifies new opportunities for growth, makes novel strategic recommendations, and drives strategy development for the member ecosystem. Ensures pressure testing of opportunities and the consideration of trade-offs and implications across functions/organizations.
• Partners with cross-functional stakeholders to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics- oriented perspective, with minimal supervision. Builds collaborative relationships with other teams and seeks input and feedback to develop an understanding of their priorities and constraints. Communicates with stakeholders to answer a wide variety of complex questions.
• Communicates implications of work (e.g., forecasts, analyses, trends) to management and cross-functional stakeholders to drive action.
• Executes ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address ambiguous or complex business questions, deriving actionable insights from results.
• Independently create, manage and update forecasting models for products, initiatives and the broader LinkedIn ecosystem, in close collaboration with Product teams.
• Demonstrates a growth mindset and champions cross-functional collaboration, aligning with LinkedIn's values of transformation, integrity, and putting members first.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Business Analytics, Finance, or related field
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in finance, management consulting, investment banking, or related field OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 1 years of experience in the technology industry
• SQL experience
• Background in management consulting, investment banking, private equity, strategy or an operational or growth role within a technology company
• Proactive and solutions-oriented, with the ability to independently seek information, solve complex problems, mobilize resources, and drive outcomes in dynamic environments
• Experience working collaboratively in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
• Strong analytical skills with experience breaking down and solving real-world business challenges
• Concise and effective communications: You're able to articulately present and debate recommendations with cross-functional teams and senior leadership
• Basic understanding of B2B sales processes and terminology

Suggested Skills

• Problem Solving
• Strategic Thinking
• Forecasting
• Data Analysis
• Project Management

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