Associate Strategic Finance – LinkedIn Marketing Solutions

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. The Associate Strategic Finance role will support the LinkedIn Marketing Solutions organization by partnering with cross-functional teams to define product strategy, manage performance, and improve operational effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Skills

• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Annual performance bonus
• Stock
• Benefits
• Other applicable incentive compensation plans

Company Overview

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