Senior Associate, Strategic Finance – AI & Productivity Enablement

Senior Associate, Strategic Finance – AI & Productivity Enablement

• 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.

Linked In’s R&D Finance Team is seeking a Senior Associate, Strategic Finance who is passionate, strategic, and analytical to provide strategic finance support to our Productivity Engineering (PE) org, helping them achieve their ambitious goals. The PE org manages our growing set of AI tools and the experimentation process that shapes our internal AI strategies; powers billing platforms and other Go To Market  tech;

and maintains our Info Sec posture in an ever‑changing landscape to protect our users, customers, and product.

As a Senior Associate, Strategic Finance, you will play a pivotal role in driving cross‑functional initiatives that blend strategy and execution. Partnering closely with finance leadership and the PE team, you will help clarify strategy and define and track success metrics related to the PE team’s initiatives, spanning software development, Info Sec, and internal productivity. You will support a cross‑company process to manage the portfolio of software products that power our employee productivity, as well as provide core financial planning support and own P&L management for your partners.

• Learn to identify new opportunities for growth within a limited scope and support strategy development with business partners.
• Operationalize ideas and develop plans for execution with some support from more senior team members.

• Communicate implications of work (e.g., forecasts, analyses, trends) to management and cross‑functional stakeholders to drive action.
• Synthesize problems and communicate point of view to support decision‑making on issues related to individual work in smaller group discussions.

• Partner with cross‑functional stakeholders to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics‑oriented perspective, with minimal supervision.
• Communicate with stakeholders to answer a wide variety of complex questions.

• Support performance management by creating, maintaining, and updating complex models and forecasts for assigned metrics.
• Execute ad‑hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address ambiguous or complex business questions, deriving actionable insights from results.

• Contribute to the culture and values of the organization including diversity, inclusion, and belonging, through organization‑wide events and initiatives.
• Seek out new opportunities for career growth and skill development.

• 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+ years of experience in management consulting.

• Data Analysis
• Problem Solving
• Project Management
• Stakeholder Management

Linked In is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $98,000 to $158,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill…