Associate, Finance COE – Programs & Innovation

LinkedIn•San Francisco, CA

3d•$88,000 - $128,000•Hybrid

About The Position

This role will be based in Mountain View, CA; Sunnyvale, CA (Bay Area) The Strategic Finance Center of Excellence (COE) is a newly formed team focused on centralizing, standardizing, and modernizing key financial operations to unlock scale, accuracy, and strategic capacity across LinkedIn. As we build for the future, this team will act as business process owners, driving design and continuous improvement across high-impact financial workflows such as accrual processes and headcount & position management. The associate will be primarily focused on headcount/position management workstreams in our Marketplace/GTM business unit to begin, with additional scope coming over time. This team will also support the discovery and adoption of new tools and tackle automation opportunities. We are seeking a detail-oriented and process-minded Associate to join the COE. This individual will take ownership of end-to-end workstreams, working to identify inefficiencies, implement scalable solutions, and embed best practices across finance. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in complexity, enjoys solving operational challenges, and is skilled at transforming fragmented and siloed processes into structured, scalable solutions through thoughtful design and cross-functional collaboration. 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.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Business, Business Analytics, Finance, or related field AND minimum 1 years of experience in finance, finance accounting, management consulting, investment banking, or related field OR equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

3+ years of relevant experience (FP&A, Finance Ops or related), ideally in process design or redesign, particularly in financial operations such as expense and headcount management (e.g., accruals, position management, forecasting)
Strong analytical skills with proficiency in Excel , experience in SQL and data tools (e.g., PowerBI, Tableau); Experienced in program management and owning projects end-to end (including effective communication, stakeholder management), with the ability to drive alignment across functions and complex stakeholder maps
A proactive, problem-solver with strong sense of ownership paired with strong analytical capabilities to tackle complex organizational issues
Process Design & Documentation
Stakeholder Management
Financial Acumen
Data Analysis
Project & Change Management

Responsibilities

Strategic Thinking Business process owner for designated financial workstreams with a focus driving on consistency, scalability, and operational excellence.
Designs and redesigns processes to enhance accuracy, reduce manual effort, and improve end-to-end efficiency across financial operations
Contributes to strategy development with business partners, within a limited scope.
Stakeholder Influence Collaborates with functional finance partners and systems teams to define processes / best practices and drive change management
Leverages insights and data to develop narratives to influence stakeholders with some guidance.
Deliver clear, data-informed narratives and presentations to support strategic and operational decision-making
Execution & Organization Ensures quality assurance of outputs and execution against defined timelines and SLAs, including validating accuracy, completeness, and adherence to agreed standards prior to delivery
Operationalizes processes and supports new ideas to improve processes by providing a data-driven perspective, with the support from more senior team members.
Gathers stakeholder feedback and synthesizes into data-driven recommendations.
Develops standard workstreams and operational processes according to defined procedures.
Performance Management Access, transform, and synthesize data from cross-platform data sources and analyze to assess, signals, trends, and risks, with some support from more senior team members.
Executes ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address well-defined business questions, deriving actionable insights from results.
Culture & Values Supports the culture and values of the organization, including diversity, inclusion, and belonging, by collaborating with and helping others and participating in organization-wide events/initiatives.