What are the responsibilities and job description for the Strategic Finance Manager 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 can be based in either San Francisco or Mountain View (South Bay).
Our GTM Horizontal Strategic Finance team is searching for a strategic and results-driven individual to partner closely with senior leaders across the Marketing Org. The vision is to provide strategic, financial, and operational insights to build, manage, and operate a world-class Marketing org. The team focuses on partnering directly with our CMSO (Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer) and her leadership team to build the right strategies that drive impact across the business, design the right organizational capabilities and operating models to drive efficiency in how we operate, drive financial and operating rigor to optimize and effectively use resources, and measure spend effectiveness and efficiency aligned with company-wide priorities.
The role is highly cross-functional, indexing heavily on operational rigor and execution against financial priorities initially, and owning key strategic initiatives over time. The ideal candidate will:
Responsibilities:
Strategic Thinking and Advanced Analytics
Basic Qualifications:
The pay range for this role is $123,000 to $199,000. 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
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:
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.
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 either San Francisco or Mountain View (South Bay).
Our GTM Horizontal Strategic Finance team is searching for a strategic and results-driven individual to partner closely with senior leaders across the Marketing Org. The vision is to provide strategic, financial, and operational insights to build, manage, and operate a world-class Marketing org. The team focuses on partnering directly with our CMSO (Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer) and her leadership team to build the right strategies that drive impact across the business, design the right organizational capabilities and operating models to drive efficiency in how we operate, drive financial and operating rigor to optimize and effectively use resources, and measure spend effectiveness and efficiency aligned with company-wide priorities.
The role is highly cross-functional, indexing heavily on operational rigor and execution against financial priorities initially, and owning key strategic initiatives over time. The ideal candidate will:
- Provide critical insights and recommendations on budget allocation & utilization during financial planning and in-quarter management
- Solve highly complex ambiguous operational and strategic questions within LinkedIn’s Marketing team
- Has exceptional business acumen and the skills to operate autonomously to identify, prioritize, partner, influence and implement high-impact change against company-wide priorities
Responsibilities:
Strategic Thinking and Advanced Analytics
- Begins to identify new opportunities for growth across the entire LinkedIn Marketing organization and leads strategy development and financial & operating rigor with business partners.
- Deliver strategic projects for our Marketing leadership that provide key insights for high-priority initiatives
- Conduct in-depth analysis across all aspects of marketing to develop deep understanding of key value drivers to identify improvement areas and opportunities.
- Validates and executes complex pressure testing of growth opportunities.
- Leverages highly advanced knowledge to develop hypotheses using identified signals, trends, and risks.
- Executes ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address highly complex business questions, deriving actionable insights from results.
- Supports Marketing organization by performance managing, maintaining, and optimizing our marketing budget. Develops models, key metrics, and forecasts to maintain financial rigor, accuracy, and effectiveness.
- Provides informal coaching and mentorship to junior team members working to forecast and analyze risks and opportunities in meeting targets.
- Independently partners with cross-functional stakeholders to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics-oriented perspective.
- Serves as a resource for stakeholders to answer a wide variety of complex questions.
- Independently drives the development of large workstreams, projects, or operational processes.
- Proactively identifies obstacles and recommends solutions.
- Communicates implications of work (e.g., forecasts, analyses, trends) and implications of internal/external factors to management and cross-functional stakeholders to drive action.
- Leverages insights and data to develop narratives to influence stakeholders.
- Synthesizes problems and communicates point of view to drive alignment and decision-making on issues within area of responsibility.
- Works as part of a team that supports the culture and values of the organization, including people development and diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
- Provides actionable, concrete project-oriented feedback (after a meeting, end-of-project review) to colleagues and/or partners.
- Provides guidance and support to more junior team members learning to operationalizes ideas and develop plans for execution.
- Seeks out new opportunities for career growth and skill development and shares with others.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Business Analytics, Finance, or related field AND minimum 6 years of experience in finance, finance accounting, management consulting, investment banking, or related field OR equivalent experience.
- 3 years of experience in the technology industry
- Financial Acumen
- Forecasting
- Data Analysis
- Problem Solving
- Project Management
The pay range for this role is $123,000 to $199,000. 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
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.
Salary : $123,000 - $199,000
