Sr. Associate Strategic Finance

LinkedIn; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Stock options

Benefits

Job summary

LinkedIn is seeking a Sr. Associate on the Ecosystem Strategic Finance team in Sunnyvale to partner with Flagship Consumer leaders, shaping product strategy and driving sustainable growth.

This role focuses on data-driven forecasting, business analysis, and collaboration with Product, Engineering, Design, and Finance to translate insights into roadmaps and measurable impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Analytics or Finance with 3+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience in finance, finance accounting, management consulting, investment banking, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Identify growth opportunities and support strategy with business partners.
• Validate growth opportunities via pressure testing.
• Operationalize ideas and plan execution with guidance.
• Build collaborative relationships with cross-functional teams.
• Communicate forecasts, analyses, and trends to leadership.
• Develop narratives to influence stakeholders for decisions.
• Synthesize problems and communicate point of view for decisions.
• Support growth initiatives with a metrics-oriented perspective.
• Create, maintain and update models and forecasts for metrics.
• Access, transform and synthesize data from cross-platform sources and analyze signals.

Skills

Communication

Cross-Team Collaboration

Data Analysis

Financial Acumen

Problem Solving

Stakeholder Management

Strategic Thinking

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business/Finance/Analytics

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.

Job Description

This role will be based in Sunnyvale.

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.

Our Ecosystem Strategic Finance team is seeking a Sr. Associate to partner with LinkedIn’s Flagship Consumer leaders in shaping product strategy and driving sustainable growth. Supporting the Notifications team, this role will leverage data, forecasting, and business analysis to identify growth opportunities, evaluate initiative performance, and inform roadmap prioritization. The individual will synthesize signals from complex datasets, develop actionable insights and business narratives, and collaborate with cross‑functional stakeholders to translate analysis into decisions and measurable business impact. The ideal candidate combines strong analytical rigor, business judgment, and stakeholder influence with a passion for solving ambiguous and complex problems. Key partners this role will collaborate with include Product Managers, Engineer leaders, Design leaders, and Strategic Finance partners.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Builds collaborative relationships with other teams and seeks input and feedback to develop an understanding of their priorities and constraints.
• 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.
• Synthesizes problems and communicates point of view to support decision‑making on issues related to individual work in smaller group discussions.
• Partners with cross‑functional stakeholders to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics‑oriented perspective, with minimal supervision.
• Supports performance management by creating, maintaining, and updating complex models and forecasts for assigned metrics.
• Access, transform, and synthesize data from cross‑platform data sources and analyze to assess signals, trends, and risks.
• Leverages advanced knowledge to develop hypotheses using identified signals, trends, and risks.
• Executes ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address ambiguous or complex business questions, deriving actionable insights from results.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience in the technology industry.

Suggested Skills

• Communication
• Cross‑Team Collaboration
• Data Analysis
• Financial Acumen
• Problem Solving
• Stakeholder Management
• Strategic Thinking

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $107,000 to $172,000. 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 https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.

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