Strategic Finance Manager

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.

This role can be based in either San Francisco or Mountain View (South Bay).

Our GTM Horizontal Strategic Finance team is searching for a strategic and resultsdriven individual to partner closely with senior leaders across the Marketing Org. The vision is to provide strategic financial and operational insights to build manage and operate a worldclass Marketing org. The team focuses on partnering directly with our CMSO (Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer) and her leadership team to build the right strategies that drive impact across the business design the right organizational capabilities and operating models to drive efficiency in how we operate drive financial and operating rigor to optimize and effectively use resources and measure spend effectiveness and efficiency aligned with companywide priorities. 

The role is highly crossfunctional indexing heavily on operational rigor and against financial priorities initially and owning key strategic initiatives over time. The ideal candidate will:

• Provide critical insights and recommendations on budget allocation & utilization during financial planning and inquarter management
• Solve highly complex ambiguous operational and strategic questions within LinkedIns Marketing team 
• Has exceptional business acumen and the skills to operate autonomously to identify prioritize partner influence and implement highimpact change against companywide priorities

A strong candidate will be able to demonstrate a track record of strategic insight analytical rigor and synthesized communication; and have experience with executive partnership leading transformational initiatives and team leadership that empowers and develops our talented employees.

Responsibilities: 

Strategic Thinking and Advanced Analytics

• Begins to identify new opportunities for growth across the entire LinkedIn Marketing organization and leads strategy development and financial & operating rigor with business partners.  
• Deliver strategic projects for our Marketing leadership that provide key insights for highpriority initiatives
• Conduct indepth analysis across all aspects of marketing to develop deep understanding of key value drivers to identify improvement areas and opportunities.
• Validates and executes complex pressure testing of growth opportunities.  
• Leverages highly advanced knowledge to develop hypotheses using identified signals trends and risks.  
• Executes ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address highly complex business questions deriving actionable insights from results.  

Financial Management and Rigor 

• Supports Marketing organization by performance managing maintaining and optimizing our marketing budget. Develops models key metrics and forecasts to maintain financial rigor accuracy and effectiveness.
• Provides informal coaching and mentorship to junior team members working to forecast and analyze risks and opportunities in meeting targets. 

& Organization 

• Independently partners with crossfunctional stakeholders to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metricsoriented perspective.  
• Serves as a resource for stakeholders to answer a wide variety of complex questions.  
• Independently drives the development of large workstreams projects or operational processes.  
• Proactively identifies obstacles and recommends solutions. 

Stakeholder Influence 

• Communicates implications of work (e.g. forecasts analyses trends) and implications of internal/external factors to management and crossfunctional stakeholders to drive action.  
• Leverages insights and data to develop narratives to influence stakeholders.  
• Synthesizes problems and communicates point of view to drive alignment and decisionmaking on issues within area of responsibility. 

Culture & Values 

• Works as part of a team that supports the culture and values of the organization including people development and diversity inclusion and belonging.  
• Provides actionable concrete projectoriented feedback (after a meeting endofproject review) to colleagues and/or partners.  
• Provides guidance and support to more junior team members learning to operationalizes ideas and develop plans for . 
• Seeks out new opportunities for career growth and skill development and shares with others. 

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications: 

• Bachelors Degree in Business Business Analytics Finance or related field AND minimum 6 years of experience in finance finance accounting management consulting investment banking or related field OR equivalent experience. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• 3 years of experience in the technology industry 

Suggested Skills: 

• Financial Acumen  
• Forecasting  
• Data Analysis  
• Problem Solving  
• Project Management

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $123000 to $199000.  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 Information :

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