Sr. Associate, Strategic Finance - LinkedIn Talent Solutions

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 San Francisco or Sunnyvale, CA. 

Our LTS (LinkedIn Talent Solutions) Monetization Strategic Finance team is seeking a Sr. Associate to partner with LinkedIn’s LTS leaders in shaping GTM finance strategy, monitoring key business metrics, identifying trends, and assessing the financial impact of strategic initiatives. This role will support the LTS Growth and Performance Strategic Finance team - helping to craft long and short term GTM strategy through data driven insights, managing performance to understand & optimize field growth, and helping sales and cross functional teams (PMM, Pricing, GTM Ops) prioritize based on impact sizing.

A strong candidate is equally comfortable and skilled at crafting a thoughtful plan, and rolling up their sleeves to get it done. We are looking for someone who excels at driving execution across multiple senior stakeholders, demonstrates strong ownership to dig deep into highly technical and complex areas to drive impact, and is highly analytical with strong business acumen. Key partners this role will collaborate with include Sales, Pricing, PMM, GTM Ops and Strategic Finance partners.  

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. 

Stakeholder Influence 

• Communicates implications of work (e.g., forecasts, analyses, trends) to senior cross-functional stakeholders to drive action.  
• Leverages insights and data to develop narratives to influence stakeholders with limited guidance.  

Execution & Organization 

• Partners with cross-functional stakeholders to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics- oriented perspective, with minimal supervision.  
• Exercises judgment within defined procedures to develop workstreams and operational processes.  
• Proactively identifies obstacles and works to unblock them with minimal support. 

Performance Management 

• Access, transform, and synthesize data from cross-platform data sources and analyze to assess signals, trends, and risks. 
• Executes ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address ambiguous or complex business questions, deriving actionable insights from results.  

Culture and Values 

• 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.