Sr. Manager, Strategic Finance - Central Finance

LinkedIn; California; Hybrid; USD 159,000 - 258,000; Full time

Job summary

LinkedIn seeks a Senior Strategic Finance Manager to drive financial visibility, forecasting, and strategic decision support across multiple lines of business.

You will partner with cross-functional teams and senior leadership to frame insights, influence resource allocation, and deliver data-driven recommendations that guide growth and efficiency.

This role blends strategy and finance, requiring strong modeling, executive communication, and the ability to align stakeholders around key priorities.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, management consulting, or related fields, including leading complex initiatives.
• Experience owning budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and business performance management for a significant area.
• Financial modeling and analytical capabilities, with ability to translate analysis into strategic recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Own financial performance management across multiple LOBs and Functions, establish KPIs and provide senior leadership with perspective on performance and actions.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning across functions, align stakeholders on assumptions, advise on investments and tradeoffs.
• Direct financial modeling and scenario analysis for go-to-market strategy, investments, and growth opportunities; synthesize findings for executives.

Skills

Strategic Finance

Financial Planning

Financial Modeling

Executive Influence

Business Strategy

Education

BA/BS in Finance or related field

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 San Francisco or 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.

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
  • Lead financial analysis for the company's highest-priority strategic initiatives and ambiguous business questions. Develop structured perspectives from complex financial and operational information and communicate conclusions, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations through executive-level presentations and discussions.

Basic Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years ofexperience in strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, management consulting, or related fields, including experience leading complex financial and strategic initiatives.
• Experience owning budgeting, forecasting, long‑range planning, and business performance management for a significant business area or multiple functions.
• Financial modeling and analytical capabilities, with demonstrated ability to evaluate complex business scenarios and translate analysis into strategic recommendations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and drive alignment across functions on complex business, financial, and resource allocation decisions.
• Executive communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information and clearly communicate insights, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to senior financial and non‑financial stakeholders.
• Business judgment and strategic thinking, with demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous and rapidly changing environments.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multiple complex workstreams, establish priorities, and deliver results through both direct ownership and the work of others.

Suggested Skills

• Strategic Finance
• Financial Planning
• Financial Modeling
• Executive Influence
• Business Strategy

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $159,000 to $258,000. 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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