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.

This role will be based in San Francisco, CA.

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.

Job Description

LinkedIn’s Strategic Finance team is looking for an Associate who is a strategic thinker, motivated operator, and passionate about digital trust and safety. This individual will partner with a wide range of cross functional teams from Product, Engineering and Artificial Intelligence to Ops, Policy and Legal to ensure that LinkedIn is a safe and trusted platform for our members and customers. This is a great role for someone with a passion for the intersection between technology, strategy and policy, and will require an entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to roll up their sleeves and work independently to drive impact.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the ongoing strategic finance partner for our cross-functional Trust team, delivering strategic projects for leadership in high priority areas.
• Supports performance management by creating, maintaining, and updating basic models and dashboards for assigned metrics.
• Access, transform, and synthesize data from cross-platform data sources and analyze to assess trends, risks, and identify improvement areas with some support from more senior team members.
• Communicates performance trends / analyses to management and cross-functional stakeholders with the necessary business context.
• Collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders to support initiatives and target setting by providing a metrics-oriented perspective, with some supervision.
• Supports collaborative relationships with other teams and utilizes input and feedback to develop an understanding of their priorities and constraints.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SQL, Excel, and Tableau
• Highly analytical: Experience decomposing and solving real-world business problems via data driven analysis
• Proactive and passionate: Independently capable of seeking information, solving conceptual problems, corralling resources, and delivering results in challenging situations
• High-energy, team-first attitude: Motivated to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment to help our growing business
• Concise and effective communication: Excellent communication skills to articulately present and debate recommendations with cross-functional teams and senior leadership

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 $95,000-126,000. 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 where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at accommodations@linkedin.com and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.

Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:

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

A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn’s legal duty to furnish information.

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Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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