Associate Strategic Finance – LinkedIn Marketing Solutions

LinkedIn•San Francisco, CA

3d•$80,000 - $128,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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. Our Marketplace Strategic Finance team is searching for a strategic and results-driven Associate to support the LinkedIn Marketing Solutions (LMS) organization. This person will partner closely with the R&D cross-functional team to define product strategy and roadmaps, performance manage against our business objective, and improve how we operate by setting targets across products. This role specifically will be focused on deepening our understanding of the ad ecosystem, and will partner closely with R&D teams across both our LMS and organic teams. The ideal candidate will be passionate about solving highly complex ambiguous operational and strategic questions within LinkedIn’s R&D team and has exceptional business acumen and the skills to operate autonomously to identify, prioritize, partner, influence and implement high-impact change. Key responsibilities would include:

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

Independently capable of seeking information, solving conceptual problems, corralling resources, and delivering results in challenging situations.
Experience with SQL or large datasets a plus.
Experience with digital advertising or technology industry a plus.
Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

Strategic Thinking
Contributes to strategy development with business partners within a limited scope.
Begins to validate and execute routine pressure testing of growth opportunities.
Collaborates with product, engineering, and data science teams to understand business drivers and evaluate strategic initiatives, including supporting financial guidance for new product launches.
Operationalizes ideas and develops plans for execution with support from more senior team members.
Supports collaborative relationships with other teams and utilizes input and feedback to develop an understanding of their priorities and constraints.
Stakeholder Influence
Communicates implications of work (e.g., forecasts, analyses, trends, and variance insights) to management and cross-functional stakeholders with the necessary business context.
Leverages insights and data to develop narratives to influence stakeholders with some guidance.
Synthesizes problems and communicates point of view to support decision-making on issues related to individual work in smaller group discussions.
Execution & Organization
Collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics-oriented perspective, with some supervision.
Communicates with stakeholders to answer a variety of questions and support ongoing operational and strategic initiatives.
Develops standard workstreams and operational processes according to defined procedures.
Begins to identify obstacles within immediate scope and makes recommendations.
Performance Management
Supports performance management by creating, maintaining, and updating financial models and forecasts for assigned business areas and product initiatives (e.g., ad products such as LinkedIn Audience Network).
Establishes and refines KPIs and tracking frameworks to measure progress against business objectives.
Accesses, transforms, and synthesizes data from cross-platform data sources to assess signals, trends, risks, and opportunities, with some support from more senior team members.
Analyzes business trends and variances to provide actionable insights to cross-functional stakeholders.
Leverages comprehensive knowledge to develop hypotheses using identified signals, trends, and risks.
Executes ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address well-defined business questions, deriving actionable insights from results.
Begins to work with cross-functional teams to design experiments to close deviations from targets.
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.
Seeks out feedback and provides constructive feedback to colleagues.
Takes advantage of opportunities for career growth and skill development.