What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Associate, Strategic Finance - LinkedIn Marketing Solutions position at LinkedIn?
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 will be based in Mountain View, San Francisco Bay Area, or New York.
We are looking for a highly motivated, deeply analytical, and strategic individual to join our Strategic Finance team as a Senior Associate supporting LinkedIn's Marketing Solutions business (LMS). In this new role, you will primarily focus on R&D Portfolio Allocation - tracking, analyzing, and providing recommendations on our investment portfolio across the LMS business with a focus on R&D. Additional areas of responsibility include supporting Financial Planning processes and Measurement product initiatives, along with other high-priority business initiatives. You will build and maintain complex models, analyze performance, and generate insights that inform investment decisions. Working closely with R&D teams (e.g., Product, Engineering, Design) and cross-functional partners (e.g., Sales, Marketing, Operations) you'll translate data into actionable business recommendations that drive sustainable growth for our ads business. The ideal candidate combines exceptional analytical skills with strong communication abilities and a passion for understanding the drivers behind business performance.
Responsibilities:
Strategic Thinking:
Basic Qualifications
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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https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf for more information.
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:
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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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 will be based in Mountain View, San Francisco Bay Area, or New York.
We are looking for a highly motivated, deeply analytical, and strategic individual to join our Strategic Finance team as a Senior Associate supporting LinkedIn's Marketing Solutions business (LMS). In this new role, you will primarily focus on R&D Portfolio Allocation - tracking, analyzing, and providing recommendations on our investment portfolio across the LMS business with a focus on R&D. Additional areas of responsibility include supporting Financial Planning processes and Measurement product initiatives, along with other high-priority business initiatives. You will build and maintain complex models, analyze performance, and generate insights that inform investment decisions. Working closely with R&D teams (e.g., Product, Engineering, Design) and cross-functional partners (e.g., Sales, Marketing, Operations) you'll translate data into actionable business recommendations that drive sustainable growth for our ads business. The ideal candidate combines exceptional analytical skills with strong communication abilities and a passion for understanding the drivers behind business performance.
Responsibilities:
Strategic Thinking:
- 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.
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.
- 1 years of experience in the technology industry.
- Strategic Thinking
- Cross-Team Collaboration
- Data Analysis
- Influencing for Impact
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.
Please reference the following information for more information: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf and
https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf for more information.
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
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.
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pay Transparency Policy Statement
As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.
Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates
Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.
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