Senior Associate, Strategic Finance - Strategy & Reporting

Senior Associate, Strategic Finance - Strategy & Reporting

• Full-time
• Workplace Type:
  Hybrid
• Department:
  Finance

Linked In 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 San Francisco or Sunnyvale.

At Linked In, 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 Linked In office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

This role is part of a team that sits at the intersection of our respective LOBs and Marketplaces, where you will work on developing cross line of business Monetization strategy, driving consolidated reporting, and delivering clear, crisp, and concise materials that go to Linked In’s Executive Team and the Microsoft Senior Leadership Team. In this role, you will be part or a team that will:

Work across the Marketplace Strategic Finance team – partnering across lines-of-businesses, functions, and segments – to develop Monetization growth strategies and unlock GTM operational efficiencies for Linked In

Partner with the Infrastructure and Central Strategic Finance teams to communicate insights, analyses, reporting, and broader Monetization recommendations to the Linked In Executive Team

Build and deliver consolidated Monetization reporting views for the Linked In Executive Team and Microsoft Senior Leadership Team and Board of Directors

This is a matrixed role, with business partners and stakeholders across the Finance, Sales, HR, Marketing, and R&D organizations.

• Learns to identify new opportunities for growth within a limited scope and supports strategy development with business partners.
• Validates and executes pressure testing of growth opportunities.
• Operationalizes ideas and develops plans for execution with some support from more senior team members.

• Communicates implications of work (e.g., forecasts, analyses, trends) to management and cross-functional stakeholders to drive action.
• Leverages insights and data to develop narratives to influence stakeholders with limited guidance.

• Partners with cross-functional stakeholders to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics-oriented perspective, with minimal supervision.
• Communicates with stakeholders to answer a wide variety of complex questions.
• Proactively identifies obstacles and works to unblock them with minimal support.

• 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.

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.

• 1 year of experience in the technology industry.
• Experience leveraging advanced data analytics and visualization tools (e.g., SQL, Python, Tableau, or Power BI) to translate financial data into clear insights and compelling narratives for executive decision-making. This skill supports consolidating and communicating complex monetization performance trends effectively.
• Proven track record of navigating and driving projects in a matrixed organization, with strong stakeholder management and communication…