Sr. Associate, Strategic Finance - LinkedIn Marketing 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

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.

This role can be based in San Francisco, CA, Mountain View (South Bay), CA or New York, NY.

We are seeking a highly motivated, deeply analytical, and strategic Senior Associate to join our Strategic Finance team supporting LinkedIn's Marketing Solutions business (LMS) — our advertising business. In this role, you will drive business impact by leading efforts in Advertiser Demand Growth, a critical area focused on uncovering insights into customer budgets, spend composition, and emerging trends to identify, prioritize, and execute new growth opportunities. You will also have the opportunity to contribute to SMB Growth initiatives, a company-wide priority and other highly visible business initiatives.  

You will provide comprehensive financial, strategic, and operational support - from developing forecasting models and business cases to analyzing performance metrics and identifying optimization opportunities. You will also contribute to high-priority Financial Planning processes as needed. Working closely with Strategic Finance teams and cross-functional partners (e.g., Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and BizDev), you will craft strategies, build sophisticated models, translate data into actionable business recommendations, chart courses of action, and hold teams accountable to drive sustainable growth for our ads business. The ideal candidate is a full-stack strategic finance professional who seamlessly integrates analytical rigor with strategic vision, builds strong stakeholder relationships, and consistently drives operational excellence.

 Responsibilities: 

• Learns to identify new opportunities for growth within a limited scope and supports strategy development with business partners.  
• Validates and executes pressure testing of growth opportunities.  
• Operationalizes ideas and develops plans for execution with some support from more senior team members.  
• Builds collaborative relationships with other teams and seeks 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 to drive action.  
• Leverages insights and data to develop narratives to influence stakeholders with limited guidance.  
• Synthesizes problems and communicates point of view to support decision-making on issues related to individual work in smaller group discussions. 
• Partners with cross-functional stakeholders to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics- oriented perspective, with minimal supervision.  
• Communicates with stakeholders to answer a wide variety of complex questions.  
• Exercises judgment within defined procedures to develop workstreams and operational processes.  
• Proactively identifies obstacles and works to unblock them with minimal support. 
• Supports performance management by creating, maintaining, and updating complex models and forecasts for assigned metrics.  
• Access, transform, and synthesize data from cross-platform data sources and analyze to assess signals, trends, and risks. 
• Leverages advanced knowledge to develop hypotheses using identified signals, trends, and risks.  
• Executes ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address ambiguous or complex business questions, deriving actionable insights from results.  
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to design experiments to close deviations from targets. 
• Contributes to the culture and values of the organization including diversity, inclusion, and belonging, through organization-wide events and initiatives.  
• Proactively seeks out feedback and provides constructive feedback to colleagues.  
• Seeks out new opportunities for career growth and skill development. 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Business Analytics, Finance, or related field AND minimum 3 years of experience in finance, finance accounting, management consulting, investment banking, or related field OR equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ year of experience in the technology industry
• Strong financial modeling and data analysis skills (experience in SQL a plus)
• Ability to seek information independently and solve conceptual problems with directional guidance
• Concise and effective communications: You’re able to articulately present and debate recommendations with cross-functional teams and senior leadership

Suggested Skills

• Communications
• Financial Acumen
• Problem Solving
• Strategic Thinking
• Data Analysis

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 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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We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are 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.

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