Job Specifications
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 San Francisco or Sunnyvale.
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 seeking a highly analytical and driven Senior Associate, Strategic Finance to help drive global financial planning, reporting, and decision support for LinkedIn Talent Solutions. This role sits within the Business Insights & Analysis team and partners closely with senior finance leaders and cross-functional stakeholders across Sales and Operations.
The Senior Associate will play a key role in monthly close and forecasting cycles, global performance reporting, and developing clear, executive-ready business narratives. This position also contributes to ad hoc strategic initiatives and high-impact analyses. The role offers strong exposure to SaaS finance fundamentals, executive-level storytelling, and the operational dynamics of a global business.
Responsibilities:
Strategic Thinking
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.
Stakeholder Influence
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.
Execution & Organization
Partners with cross-functional stakeholders to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics- oriented perspective, with minimal supervision.
Proactively identifies obstacles and works to unblock them with minimal support.
Performance Management
Access, transform, and synthesize data from cross-platform data sources and analyze to assess signals, trends, and risks.
Executes ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address ambiguous or complex business questions, deriving actionable insights from results.
Culture & Values
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.
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+ years of experience in the technology industry.
Experience working with financial systems and SQL to query, manipulate, and reconcile large datasets
Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy
Suggested Skills
Data Analysis
Financial Acumen
Forecasting
Problem Solving
Project Management
LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The pay range for this role is $98,000 to $158,000. 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
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.
LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace
About the Company
Founded in 2003, LinkedIn connects the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. With more than 1 billion members worldwide, including executives from every Fortune 500 company, LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network. The company has a diversified business model with revenue coming from Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, Sales Solutions and Premium Subscriptions products. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, LinkedIn has offices across the globe..
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