Sr. Associate Strategic Finance COE

LinkedIn; Karnataka; Hybrid; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

LinkedIn Bengaluru-based role within the Strategic Finance COE, focusing on end-to-end financial operations such as accruals, headcount forecasting, and reporting. The Senior Associate will drive design, standardization, and automation of processes across global finance teams.

The role requires strong analytical abilities, stakeholder management, and experience with ERP systems. Hybrid work is offered to align with business needs and time zones.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business Analytics, Business, or related field and minimum 3 years of experience in finance or related field (or equivalent).
• Experience with FP&A, Finance Operations, or related areas is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own designated financial workstreams with focus on consistency, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Identify opportunities to simplify and automate financial processes; partner with stakeholders to design improvements.
• Collaborate with finance and systems teams across time zones to define processes and drive change.

Skills

Financial Acumen

Stakeholder Management

Process Redesign

Data Analysis

Oracle ERP

Project & Change Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Business Analytics

Tools

SQL

PowerBI

Tableau

Excel

Job description

LinkedIn 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 Bengaluru, India.

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust andoptimizedfor 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, asdeterminedby the business needs of the team.

This role will support global Finance stakeholders and may require periodic overlap with PT working hours for key meetings, stakeholder touchpoints, transition activities, and close or forecast-related support. The expectation is not to work PT hours continuously, but the candidate should be comfortable flexing selectively when business needs require cross-time-zone coordination.

The Strategic Finance Center of Excellence (COE) is a team focused on centralizing, standardizing, and modernizing key financial operations to unlock scale, accuracy, and strategic capacity across LinkedIn. The team acts as business process owners, driving design and continuous improvement across high-impact financial workflows including accruals, position management, headcount forecasting, and reporting. This role will support all of LinkedIn Finance across these core operational workstreams, delivering through a blend of in-house execution, process optimization, and automation and agentic tooling.Additionalscope may come over time.

We are seeking a detail-oriented and process-minded Senior Associate to join the COE.This individual will take ownership of end-to-end workstreams,workingtoidentifyinefficiencies, implement scalable solutions, and embed best practices across finance. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in complexity, enjoys solving operational challenges, and is skilled at transforming fragmented and siloed processes into structured, scalable solutions through thoughtful design and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

Strategic Thinking

• Serves as process owner for designated financial workstreams (e.g., accruals, position management, headcount forecasting) with a focus on consistency, scalability, and operational excellence. Leads the design and continuous improvement of processes to reduce manual effort, strengthen controls, and improve end-to-end efficiency across financial operations.
• Identifiesopportunities to simplify, standardize, and automate financial processes within assigned workstreams. Partners with Finance stakeholders to design, prioritize, and implement process enhancements that improve efficiency, scalability, and user experience.

Stakeholder Influence

• Collaborates with functional finance partners and systems teams to define processes and best practices and drive change management across time zones.
• Synthesizes data and operational insights into clear recommendations that influence stakeholders. Delivers clear, data-informed narratives and presentations to support decision-making.

Execution & Organization

• Oversees quality assurance of outputs and execution against defined timelines and SLAs, including validating accuracy, completeness, and adherence to agreed standards prior to delivery.
• Uses sound judgment within defined workstreams to evaluateprocesseschallenges. Gathers stakeholder requirements and translates feedback into data-driven recommendations.
• Designs and documents scalable operating procedures, controls, and workflows whileidentifyingopportunities to leverage automation, AI, and new technologiesto improve productivity and accuracy.

Performance Management

• Accesses, transforms, and synthesizes data from cross-platform data sources and analyzes it to assess signals, trends, and risks.
• Develops deep domainexpertisein defined areas (e.g., position management and expense accruals) and apply critical thinking to evaluate business challenges, pressure test assumptions, and design practical, scalable solutions that improve financial operations and business outcomes.

Culture & Values

• Contributes to the culture and values of the organization including diversity, inclusion, and belonging, through organization-wide events and initiatives.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business Analytics, Business, or related field AND minimum 3 years of experience in finance, finance accounting, management consulting, investment banking, or related field OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience in the technology industry.
• 5+ years of relevant experience (FP&A, Finance Operations, or related) withdemonstratedsuccess leading process improvement, process transformation, or operational excellence initiatives, ideally supporting financial operations such as headcount forecasting, position management, accruals, month-end close, or related reporting processes.
• Analytical skills withproficiencyin Excel, and experience with SQL and data tools (e.g.,PowerBI, Tableau).
• Experience in program management and owning projects end-to-end (including effective communication and stakeholder management), with the ability to drive alignment across functions and complex stakeholder maps.
• A record of proactive problem solving anda strong senseof ownership when tackling complex organizational issues.
• Comfortoperatingin a global delivery model, partnering with counterparts across US and India time zones.

Suggested Skills

• Financial Acumen
• Stakeholder Management
• Process Redesign
• Data Analysis
• Experience with Oracle ERP
• Project & Change Management

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