Manager 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

This role is based out of our Mountain View or Sunnyvale location.

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.

LinkedIn is hiring a Manager, Strategic Finance, to partner with leaders in our Member & Customer Success organization – a strategic Finance leader who is adept at advising and influencing key leaders on business growth, investment tradeoffs, resource management, organizational structure, and strategic direction.

In this role, you will be responsible for managing the financial forecasting for Member & Customer Success (MCS) teams and partnering with key leaders as their strategic financial advisor. You will own the development and operational excellence of headcount and expense forecast models, as well as partner x-functionally with Sales, Product, HR, Marketing, Central Finance teams, etc., to ensure the financial and operational rigor of the business. You will play a central role in decisions affecting our go-to-market strategy as we accelerate company growth and success at scale. Your finance, strategy, and accounting expertise will enable you to identify and mitigate issues before they arise to safeguard the integrity of financial models. As a pivotal partner to the MCS teams, the clarity, energy, and results you deliver will be visible across the Global Business Organization’s leadership team. This role reports to the senior manager of strategic finance and is a part of the broader monetization strategic finance function on LinkedIn.

This is a high-impact role with extensive leadership exposure. A strong candidate would be able to think independently, partner with MCS leaders and their teams to identify opportunities for growth and leverage, articulate their financial business case, ensure accountability to impact, and influence partners across LinkedIn to shape new ideas for driving more efficiency and effectiveness.

Responsibilities:

Financial Performance Management:

• Support financial performance management by creating, maintaining, and updating expense and headcount models and forecasts, developing improvements for key metrics, and analyzing risks and opportunities in meeting targets.
• Executes ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address highly complex business questions, deriving actionable insights from results.
  
  
  

Strategic Thinking:

• Identify new opportunities for growth and/or leverage and lead strategy development with business partners.
• Validate and execute complex pressure testing of growth and leverage opportunities.
• Provide guidance and support to partner teams to operationalize ideas and develop plans for execution.
  
  
  

Stakeholder Influence:

• Communicate implications of work (e.g., forecasts, analyses, trends) and implications of internal/external factors to management and cross-functional stakeholders to drive action.
• Leverage insights and data to develop narratives to influence stakeholders.
• Synthesize problems and communicate points of view to drive alignment and decision-making on key priorities.
  
  
  

Execution & Organization:

• Independently partner with cross-functional stakeholders to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics-oriented perspective and driving the development of large workstreams, projects, or operational processes.
• Serves as a resource for stakeholders to answer a wide variety of complex questions.
• Proactively identifies obstacles and recommends solutions.
  
  
  

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in business, Business Analytics, Finance, or related field AND minimum 5 years of experience in finance, finance accounting, management consulting, investment banking, or related field OR equivalent experience.
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3 years of experience in the technology industry.
• 2+ years in strategic finance or similar functions
• Excel modeling skills and competency in Word and PowerPoint
• Strong systems skills with a preference toward Hyperion (Essbase), Oracle Financials, and/or Salesforce CRM
  
  
  

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 $123,000 to $199,000

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

Equal Opportunity Statement

LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. LinkedIn is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer as described in our equal opportunity statement here: EEO Statement_2020 - Signed.pdf.

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• Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
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• Being accompanied by a service dog
• Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview
  
  
  

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