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Job Description
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.
Our FP&A team is seeking a passionate, highly strategic, driven, and analytical Senior Financial Analyst to partner with our GTM Foundations leaders to tackle high-priority strategic questions for our organization and be part of the core FP&A Strategic Initiatives team responsible for objective analysis, operational insights, and strategic initiatives across all of LinkedIn.
The GTM Foundations team is aligned to support the functional areas of the organization which span Member & Customer Success, Go To Market (GTM) Operations, Pricing, and Marketing & Communications. This role will work closely with leaders across these organizations and FP&A on data-driven financial analyses and strategic initiatives that influence business outcomes. The role is highly cross-functional, requiring solid business acumen and influencing skills to identify, prioritize, and implement high-impact initiatives. The ideal candidate will be passionate about using insights & analyses to solve complex business problems in a technology-centric industry, and care about driving the success of LinkedIn’s businesses.
Responsibilities
Partner with Global Business Organization (GBO), Marketing, and Finance leaders to lead and support strategic analyses to address the evolving business dynamics
Identify opportunities to provide data-driven insights & analyses to the business that increases the impact, effectiveness and efficiency in resource allocation and operational rigor
Conduct in-depth analysis of our various businesses and develop deep understanding of key value drivers to identify improvement areas and opportunities
Own creation and review of complex financial models to ensure they reflect the changing business needs
Bring clear thinking and excellent problem-solving skills to a range of challenging business questions
Deliver strategic projects for our leadership that provide key business insights for high-priority initiatives
Communicate effectively with partners at all levels, especially senior executives
Cultivate relationships with cross-functional teams such as Sales, Go-to-market Operations, Marketing, Finance, and Business Operations
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
BA/BS degree in economics, finance, math, or related discipline or relevant work experience
4+ years of financial analysis experience in a technology-driven business company
2+ years of analytics experience working directly in an FP&A, Strategic Finance or Business Operations environment with track record of impact-driving results
Preferred Qualifications:
Practical experience: Experience with enterprise software, SaaS or online advertising businesses; experience and interest in surfacing data-driven insights for strategic topics that impact GTM Operations, Member & Customer Success, Marketing, or Pricing.
Natural problem-solver: comfortable with data and ambiguity, and able to both delve into the details and engage meaningfully on the overall strategy
Demonstration of critical thinking: ability to question the output of a financial model or investment case and considers options for improvement or provides thoughtful alternatives
Initiative and ownership: Proactive, results oriented, with a can-do attitude and strict attention to detail in meeting critical deadlines; Ability to act with limited oversight on day-to-day basis, balancing multiple priorities
Highly analytical: experience decomposing and solving real world business problems, ideally building/using advanced Excel models
Effective communications: Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex analyses into practical recommendations for leaders across the organization
Executive presence: Experience working closely with senior executives to solve challenging business problems;
Ability to demonstrate thought-leadership, teamwork, anticipate business needs, and manage relationships with key stakeholders
Proactive and passionate: Independently capable of seeking information, solving conceptual problems, corralling resources and delivering results in challenging situations
High-energy, team-first attitude: Motivated to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment to help our growing business
Strong technical skills: Advanced Microsoft Excel modeling skills, with competency in Word, PowerPoint, and Power BI; Strong systems skills with preference toward Hyperion (Essbase), Oracle Financials
Suggested Skills:
Financial Analysis
Strategy
Cross-Functional Partnership
LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The pay range for this role is $82,000 to $133,000. 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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates This document provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://lnkd.in/GlobalDataPrivacyNotice
Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Finance
Industries
Technology, Information and Internet
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