At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.
This role will be hybrid based out of our San Francisco or Sunnyvale office.
We are seeking a Risk & Compliance Manager to join LinkedIn’s Finance Risk & Compliance (FRC) team in our Finance Solutions & Controllership (FSC) organization. The ideal candidate is experienced and passionate about risk, controls, compliance, quality, and operational excellence. The FRC team is made up of compliance professionals with diverse backgrounds and skill sets who have set a high bar for fostering a culture of compliance and integrity and providing effective and scalable compliance solutions that strengthen and protect our trusted brand.
As part of the team driving risk & compliance for Finance, this role will work closely with multiple Finance stakeholders, cross-functional leaders, technical teams, and other compliance pillars on various controls, compliance, and quality initiatives. As a Finance Risk & Compliance Manager, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that our high-tech company adheres to regulatory requirements and industry standards and lead strategic initiatives from a risk and compliance perspective, enabling the Finance organization to scale while maintaining strong governance. This position offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, where your contributions will directly impact the company's compliance posture and operational success. Best of all, you’ll join a well-rounded, collaborative team that values diversity, humor, and teamwork.
Responsibilities:
- Leads control design and readiness efforts for Finance programs and projects, proactively identifying risks and ensuring effective controls are embedded into process and system design, including supporting design, implementation, and testing of controls prior to Go-Live.
- Drives programs and projects as a risk & compliance subject matter expert, applying industry best practices to ensure successful delivery and stakeholder adoption from a risk & control perspective.
- Partners with business and technology stakeholders, and collaborates with cross-functional leads across Finance, Engineering, and support organizations to assess impacts to Finance processes, controls, and reporting, and influence control design and implementation throughout the project lifecycle. Serves as a trusted advisor to proactively address stakeholder needs
- Anticipates emerging risks and regulations in the marketplace/industry, and evaluates risks, controls, and compliance considerations through deep-dive assessments, informing stakeholders and developing recommendations to mitigate risks and strengthen processes.
- Ensures compliance requirements are incorporated into system capabilities and process design, supporting adherence to SOX and broader regulatory expectations.
- Prepares executive-level presentations and communicates updates on SOX, compliance readiness efforts, and quality programs. Develops reporting and insights for leadership.
- Standardizes compliance activities and drives alignment across Finance by identifying, analyzing, and managing strategic risks, and partnering with stakeholders to share best practices and insights.
- Provides thought leadership and drives FRC initiatives, including quality assessments, issue monitoring & analysis, control optimization, control strategy & advisory support, digital enablement & innovation, and special projects.
- Develops and enhances quality assessment frameworks/programs for third-party service providers, leading the execution of assessments, reporting, root cause analysis, and remediation.
- Drives adoption and implementation of technology that automates and strengthens internal processes and controls. Identifies opportunities and risks related to emerging technologies, including AI, and develops recommendations and business cases.
- Supports the development and delivery of risk & compliance learning initiatives to enhance stakeholder awareness and promote consistent, effective practices across Finance.
- Executes day-to-day management of service providers, reviewing outputs, resolving issues, and escalating as needed.