Senior Associate, Finance COE - Programs and Innovation

LinkedIn•San Francisco, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed. Join us to transform the way the world works. This role will be based in Mountain View, CA; Sunnyvale, CA (Bay Area) 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. 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 senior associate will be focused on either our Marketplace/GTM or Foundations business units, and a mix of OPEX/expense management and headcount workstreams 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 Senior 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.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Business, Business Analytics, Finance, or related field AND minimum 3 years of experience in finance, finance accounting, management consulting, investment banking, or related field OR equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

1+ years of experience in the technology industry.
5+ 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); Experience in program management and owning project end-to-end (including effective communication, stakeholder management), with the ability to drive alignment across functions and complex stakeholder maps.
A record of proactive problem solving and a strong sense of ownership when tackling complex organizational issues.

Responsibilities

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
Learns to identify new opportunities for growth within a limited scope and supports strategy development with business partners.
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
Ensures quality assurance of outputs and execution against defined timelines and SLAs, including validating accuracy, completeness, and adherence to agreed standards prior to delivery
Exercises judgment within defined procedures to develop workstreams and operational processes.
Gathers stakeholder feedback and synthesizes into data-driven recommendations.
Develops standard workstreams and operational processes according to defined procedures.
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.
Contributes to the culture and values of the organization including diversity, inclusion, and belonging, through organization-wide events and initiatives.