Associate, Strategic Finance - LMS

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. The Associate in Strategic Finance will support the LinkedIn Marketing Solutions organization by driving top- and bottom-line impact through analysis, operational insights, and strategic initiatives, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to define product strategy and improve operational effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to strategy development with business partners, within a limited scope
• Begins to validate and execute routine pressure testing of growth opportunities
• Operationalizes ideas and develops plans for execution with support from more senior team members
• Supports collaborative relationships with other teams and utilizes 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 with the necessary business context
• Leverages insights and data to develop narratives to influence stakeholders with some guidance
• Synthesizes problems and communicates point of view to support decision-making on issues related to individual work in smaller group discussions
• Collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics-oriented perspective, with some supervision
• Communicates with stakeholders to answer a variety of questions
• Develops standard workstreams and operational processes according to defined procedures
• Begins to identify obstacles within immediate scope and makes recommendations
• Supports performance management by creating, maintaining, and updating basic models and forecasts for assigned metrics
• Access, transform, and synthesize data from cross-platform data sources and analyze to assess signals, trends, and risks, with some support from more senior team members
• Leverages comprehensive knowledge to develop hypotheses using identified signals, trends, and risks
• Executes ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address well-defined business questions, deriving actionable insights from results
• Begins to work with cross-functional teams to design experiments to close deviations from targets
• Supports the culture and values of the organization, including diversity, inclusion, and belonging, by collaborating with and helping others and participating in organization-wide events/initiatives
• Seeks out feedback and provides constructive feedback to colleagues
• Takes advantage of opportunities for career growth and skill development

Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Business Analytics, Finance, or related field
• 1+ years of experience in finance, finance accounting, management consulting, investment banking, or related field OR equivalent experience
• 1+ year of experience in the technology industry
• Independently capable of seeking information, solving conceptual problems, corralling resources, and delivering results in challenging situations
• Experience with SQL or large datasets a plus

Benefits

• Annual performance bonus
• Stock
• Benefits
• Other applicable incentive compensation plans

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