The location of this role will be San Francisco, Sunnyvale or Mountain View.

The Strategic Finance Center of Excellence (COE) is a newly formed team focused on centralizing, standardizing, and modernizing key financial operations to unlock scale, accuracy, and strategic capacity across LinkedIn. As we build for the future, this team will act as business process owners, driving design and continuous improvement across high-impact financial workflows such as headcount forecasting and position management. The associate will be primarily focused on expense management workstreams to begin, with additional scope coming over time. This team will also support the discovery and adoption of new tools and tackle automation opportunities.

We are seeking a detail-oriented, process-minded Associate to join the COE. This individual will take end-to-end ownership of key operational workstreams—including headcount forecasting—by identifying inefficiencies, implementing scalable solutions, and embedding best practices across Finance. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in complexity, enjoys solving operational challenges, and excels at transforming fragmented, siloed processes into structured, scalable workflows through thoughtful design and cross-functional partnership.

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.

Responsibilities: Strategic Thinking

• 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.

Stakeholder Influence

• 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.

Execution & Organization

• 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.

Headcount Forecasting & Management

• Owns and supports the end-to-end headcount forecast process by creating, maintaining, and updating complex headcount and hiring models and forecasts.
• Drives data synthesis and analysis by accessing, transforming, and synthesizing data from cross-platform sources to assess signals, trends, and risks, with occasional support from more senior team members.
• Develops strategic hypotheses by leveraging comprehensive financial and operational knowledge to identify potential causes of variance using identified signals, trends, and risks.
• Executes advanced ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address complex, well-defined business questions, deriving actionable insights and clear recommendations from results.
• Leads cross-functional collaboration to design and implement experiments or solutions to close deviations from targets, particularly within the scope of headcount and staffing models.

Culture & Values

• 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.

Qualifications Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Business Analytics, Finance, or related field AND minimum 1 years of experience in finance, finance accounting, management consulting, investment banking, or related field OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Analytical skills with proficiency in Excel and system tools (e.g., SQL, PowerBI, Oracle/EPM)
• Effective communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to drive alignment across functions
• A proactive, problem-solving mindset paired with proven analytical capabilities to tackle complex organizational issues
• Demonstrates ownership mentality and takes pride in delivering high-quality, impactful work

Suggested Skills:

• Communication
• Cross-Team Collaboration
• Data Analysis
• Decision Making
• Financial Acumen

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $80,000 to $128,000.

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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