Sr. Manager, Strategic Finance - Finance

Sr. Manager, Strategic Finance - Central Finance

• 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 Senior Strategic Finance Manager role is a high-impact opportunity to join our dynamic team. You will play a critical role in driving financial visibility, shaping forecasting processes, and influencing strategic decisions that guide the growth of our business.

This role blends strategy and finance, requiring not only strong analytical skills but also the ability to frame insights, influence senior stakeholders, and help solve complex business challenges with data-driven recommendations. You will partner closely with cross-functional teams and senior leadership to generate insights that drive performance, efficiency, and long-term value creation.

Key Responsibilities

• Financial Leadership & Business Performance
  • Own financial performance management across multiple LOBs and Functions. Establish the financial framework and key performance indicators used to evaluate business performance, identify emerging risks and opportunities, and drive accountability against financial and strategic objectives. Provide senior leadership with clear perspectives on business performance and recommended actions.
• Budgeting, Forecasting & Strategic Planning
  • Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning across multiple functions and LOBs. Establish planning frameworks, align cross-functional stakeholders on key assumptions and priorities, and ensure financial plans reflect the company's strategic objectives. Advise senior leadership on investment priorities, resource allocation, tradeoffs, and potential scenarios.
• Advanced Financial Modeling & Decision Support
  • Serve as a trusted advisor on complex and high-impact business decisions, including go-to-market strategy, potential investments, marketplace dynamics, and growth opportunities. Direct financial modeling and scenario analysis, synthesize findings, and develop recommendations that influence business strategy and executive decision-making.
• Data, Reporting & Process Excellence
  • Define and drive improvements to financial reporting, analytics, data infrastructure, and planning processes. Partner with Finance, Data, and business teams to establish scalable reporting and self-service capabilities, improve data quality, automate recurring processes, and increase the speed and effectiveness of financial decision-making.
• Cross-Functional Leadership & Influence
  • Act as a trusted finance partner to senior leaders across operations, sales, marketing, product, and other functions. Build strong relationships with executives and functional leaders, proactively identify business challenges and opportunities, and use financial insights to influence strategic priorities, operating decisions, and resource allocation.
• Strategic & Executive Analysis
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