Sr. Manager, Strategic Finance - LinkedIn Talent Solutions

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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’re seeking a Senior Manager to join our Strategic Finance team, partnering closely with our LinkedIn Talent Solutions (LTS) business. You'll be responsible for driving LTS portfolio growth by identifying new opportunities, validating initiatives, and operationalizing plans with a focus on field strategy development, setting operating priorities, and ensuring execution. In the role, you'll influence stakeholders by communicating insights, aligning business objectives, and supporting decision-making through data-driven narratives. The position leads execution by partnering cross-functionally, guiding complex projects, and proactively solving operational challenges. Performance management is achieved through advanced modeling, forecasting, risk analysis, and coaching junior team members to derive actionable insights.  

Responsibilities: 

Strategic Thinking 

• Identifies new opportunities for growth and drives strategy development with business partners.  
• Leads the validation and execution of complex pressure testing for growth opportunities.  
• Operationalizes ideas, develops plans for execution, and identifies ways to automate processes and improve data quality.  
• Leads collaborative relationships with other teams and leverages input and feedback to develop a deep expertise. 

Stakeholder Influence 

• Communicates implications of work (e.g., forecasts, analyses, trends) and necessary context to senior management and key stakeholders to drive action.  
• Leverages insights, data, and internal/external trends to develop narratives to influence stakeholders across all levels of the business.  
• Drives alignment by synthesizing problems and communicates point of view to support decision-making on strategic issues. 

Execution & Organization 

• Partners with cross-functional stakeholders and provides guidance to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics-oriented perspective.  
• Provides guidance and expertise to stakeholders by answering a wide variety of complex questions.  
• Drives the development of multiple large work-streams, projects, or operational processes.  
• Proactively identifies obstacles and leverages expertise to recommend innovative solutions. 

Performance Management 

• Supports performance management by creating, maintaining, and updating highly complex models and forecasts. 
• Reviews forecasts, analyzes risks and opportunities, and anticipates effects of internal/external metrics trends in meeting targets. 
• Leverages expert knowledge to develop hypotheses using identified signals, trends, and risks.  
• Coaches and trains junior team members executing ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address highly complex business questions, deriving actionable insights from results.  
• Partners with cross-functional teams to design experiments to close deviations from targets. 

Culture & Values 

• Models and reinforces the culture and values of the organization, including people development and diversity, inclusion, and belonging.  
• Mentors junior team members and provides actionable, concrete project-oriented feedback (after a meeting, end-of-project review) to colleagues and/or partners.  
• Supports career development goals of team members and helps others junior team members navigate transformation, new opportunities and skill development. 

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Business Analytics, Finance, or related field AND minimum 8 years of experience in finance, finance accounting, management consulting, investment banking, or related field OR equivalent experience. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• 5+ years of experience in the technology industry. 

Suggested Skills:

• Strategic Thinking 
• Cross-Team Collaboration 
• Data Analysis  
• Forecasting 
• Stakeholder Management 

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. 

The pay range for this role is $146,000 - $237,000. 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. 

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