This role will be based in San Francisco, Mountain View or Sunnyvale, CA.

In this role, you will lead Corporate Finance – Financial Management, the team that owns LinkedIn’s enterprise P&L and ensures clarity, accuracy, and foresight across the company’s financial performance. You and your team will deliver consolidated financial results, driver-based forecasts, and actionable insights that power executive decision-making and resource allocation.

As the company’s trusted P&L owner and modeling strategist, you will combine deep financial expertise with business judgment to connect topline and expense dynamics to enterprise outcomes. You will partner closely with Strategic Finance leaders, Microsoft Finance, and cross-company executives to ensure decisions are grounded in reliable data, clear narratives, and a forward-looking financial view.

This is a high-impact leadership role that requires both technical mastery and strategic perspective—balancing the precision of consolidation and modeling with the ability to communicate insights that influence the company’s direction.

In this role, you will:

• Own enterprise P&L consolidation and variance analysis across revenue, bookings, expense, and headcount with full transparency and executive confidence.
• Lead driver-based forecasting, scenario planning, and LRP, operating the corporate model as the system of record for enterprise performance and outlook.
• Deliver topline insight and accountability frameworks, including bookings → revenue conversion, pacing, scenario ranges, and performance by geo, segment, tenure, and key external KPIs in partnership with Monetization Strategic Finance.
• Set enterprise expense and headcount guidance and targets, ensuring forecast discipline, visibility of risks & opportunities, and alignment with resourcing decisions.
• Oversee capex governance and approvals, ensuring investment rigor and enterprise prioritization.
• Lead executive performance readouts with tight rate × volume narratives and decision-oriented takeaways.
• Partner with Microsoft Finance on month-end Rev/GM reviews to ensure internal performance narratives align with external reporting.
• Provide investor-grade support for MSFT earnings and Company Connect, moving from passive reporting to proactive insight.
• Own centralized competitive and peer benchmarking, including market share and margin context.
• Advance margin and U-of-A analytics in partnership with Product and AI Finance to drive actionable profitability insights.
• Support Corporate Development on M&A modeling and post-close financial integration.
• Serve as a rapid-response analytical partner for high-priority legal, executive, and enterprise decision needs.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the enterprise owner of financial truth, ensuring confidence in LinkedIn’s consolidated P&L, forecasts, and outlook.
• Drive a strong culture of financial rigor, accountability, and transparency across revenue, expense, headcount, and capital.
• Act as a strategic thought partner to Strategic Finance leaders and cross-company executives on performance, trade-offs, and investment decisions.
• Anticipate risks and opportunities through proactive scenario thinking and translate them into clear executive decision paths.
• Strengthen enterprise-level risk & opportunity visibility and ensure timely escalation with clear mitigation strategies.
• Advance modern, driver-based and adaptive forecasting capabilities in partnership with Finance Data, Systems, and COI teams.
• Build and scale a high-performance Financial Management team, developing future leaders with strong analytical judgment and business acumen.
• Model LinkedIn’s leadership behaviors and foster a team culture grounded in trust, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Business Analytics, Finance, or related field AND 12+ years of experience in finance, finance accounting, management consulting, investment banking, or related field OR equivalent experience.
• 6 years+ as a people leader.

Preferred Qualifications

• 9 years+ in people management.
• 10+ years in the technology industry.

Suggested Skills

• Financial Modeling & Forecasting
• Executive Storytelling
• Strategic Thinking
• Analytical Problem Solving
• Consolidation & Reporting
• Decision Support
• Leadership & Team Development
• Business Partnership

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $209,000 to $340,000. 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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