Sr. Associate Strategic Finance -Expense Reporting & Analytics

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

Job summary

LinkedIn is seeking a Senior Associate in Corporate Strategic Finance to support expense reporting, analytics, and decision support. You will translate financial data into actionable insights, tied to multiple P&L views, and provide concise recommendations to leadership.

The role engages with Strategic Finance, Accounting, Financial Systems and other teams, in a hybrid workplace based in Mountain View/Sunnyvale and surrounding offices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, or related field and 3+ years in finance or analytics.
• Experience with financial planning, forecasting, variance analysis, or management reporting.
• Experience building financial models and conducting quantitative analysis.
• Experience analyzing large datasets and reconciling information across sources.
• Experience with financial systems, Excel, and SQL tools.
• Experience using AI tools or automation to improve processes and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Support company-wide expense reporting and leadership dashboards.
• Translate expense data into clear narratives and actionable recommendations.
• Maintain expense structures and reconciliations across reporting cuts.
• Improve source-of-truth definitions, data quality, and reconciliation processes.
• Produce recurring expense reports and KPI dashboards for leadership.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on planning and forecasting cycles.

Skills

Data analysis

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/Finance/Analytics

Tools

Excel

SQL

AI tools

Job description

Sr. Associate Strategic Finance -Expense Reporting & Analytics

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

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 LinkedIn's Mountain View and Sunnyvale offices.

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.

We are seeking a Senior Associate, Corporate Strategic Finance to support company-wide expense reporting, analytics, and decision support. This role will focus on expense visibility across multiple reporting views and the structure behind them, while contributing to broader Corporate Strategic Finance priorities as business needs evolve. Successful candidates will be able to translate financial data into actionable insights, risks, opportunities, and recommendations.

The Senior Associate will support recurring expense reporting, leadership dashboards, expense structure governance, and analytical support across forecasting and planning cycles, in partnership with Strategic Finance, Accounting, Financial Systems, and other cross-functional teams. This role offers broad exposure to LinkedIn's financial model and enterprise planning processes, with flexibility to support evolving priorities across the Corporate Strategic Finance team.

Responsibilities

This role is expected to connect financial analysis to business implications, identify trade-offs, and help stakeholders make informed decisions.

Strategic Thinking

Support company-wide expense visibility across multiple P&L reporting cuts, including leadership, SEC, and functional views, to inform planning and performance decisions.

Stakeholder Influence

Partner with Strategic Finance leads and cross-functional stakeholders to serve on-demand expense analysis, align assumptions, and support consistent company-wide expense reporting.

Translate expense data into clear narratives and concise recommendations that highlight key drivers, trends, outliers, and decision points.

Execution & Organization

Produce the recurring expense reporting package across all standard cuts, including leadership, SEC, and functional views, with responsibility for accuracy, timeliness, stakeholder readiness, and documentation.

Reconcile expense views across cuts so that every reporting view ties back to a single expense total, partnering with Corporate Reporting on template, automation, and data standards.

Maintain the expense and headcount structure, mapping, and hierarchy that underpin every reporting cut, supporting rapid re-cuts as organizational needs evolve.

Maintain and improve financial models, reporting tools, and operating processes; leverage automation and approved AI-enabled tools, where appropriate, to improve efficiency, accelerate analysis, strengthen controls, and enhance the quality and consistency of financial insights.

Performance Management

Generate and maintain the recurring expense dashboards for the leadership team, including the fully loaded functional expense view.

Partner with Finance systems and data owners to improve source-of-truth definitions, reporting logic, data quality, and reconciliation processes.

Deliver insight rather than data by calling out drivers, trends, and outliers, and develop scenario and sensitivity views to evaluate expense risk and forecast uncertainty.

Culture & Values

Contribute to an inclusive and collaborative team environment and build trusted partnerships across Finance and the broader organization.

Demonstrate curiosity, sound judgment, ownership, and a willingness to learn and take on new responsibilities.

Basic Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with financial planning, forecasting, variance analysis, or management reporting in a corporate or business finance environment.

Experience building financial models and conducting quantitative analysis to support planning, forecasting, and business decision-making.

Experience analyzing large datasets and reconciling information across multiple sources.

Experience with financial systems, Excel, and data tools such as SQL.

Experience using AI tools or automation to improve work processes, operational efficiency, insight generation, or reporting quality. Copilot/Cowork experience is highly preferred.

Demonstrated experience maintaining accuracy while working with complex financial data and managing multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.

Experience communicating financial concepts and recommendations to a variety of stakeholders.

Suggested Skills

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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