In this role, you will be part of the GTM Horizontals Strategic Finance team, driving financial insights for the Marketing organization. You’ll help strengthen how we plan, track, and communicate Marketing’s financial contribution to LinkedIn’s performance, and how we best allocate capital across different marketing avenues.

You will partner closely with Senior Marketing leadership and cross-functional teams to drive resource planning and investment decisions, evaluate trade-offs, and identify opportunities to improve efficiency and effectiveness across spend and headcount.

We are looking for an exceptional business and people leader with strong quantitative, problem solving, communication, and project management skills. The ideal candidate can effectively communicate with executives and collaborate with a variety of people and job functions, accomplishing tasks of high complexity and scope, and perform professionally in a challenging, ambiguous, and fast-paced environment. You will work with Marketing and Finance leadership to facilitate data-driven decisions by providing accurate performance narratives, analysis, and insights from LinkedIn’s marketing and finance data. You will also drive continuous improvement of our operations and change management to sub-par processes.

We're seeking a leader who can recognize opportunities to drive business growth or improve processes and who can lead a team to bring these ideas to life.  As a people manager, we are looking for candidates who can inspire, recruit, coach and develop talent that grows at LinkedIn.

Responsibilities:

Strategic Thinking

• Identifies new opportunities for growth within scope of responsibility and adjacent areas and drives strategy development with business partners.
• Ensures pressure testing of growth opportunities.
• Supports team members in operationalizing ideas and drives the development of plans for execution.
• Leads collaborative relationships with other teams leverages input and feedback to develop ideas and see opportunities for growth.

Stakeholder Influence

• Communicates implications of work (e.g., forecasts, analyses, trends) and necessary context to senior management and key stakeholders to drive action.
• Leverages insights, data, and internal/external trends to develop narratives to influence stakeholders across all levels of the business.
• Drives alignment by synthesizing problems and communicates point of view to support decision-making on strategic issues.

Execution & Organization

• Partners with cross-functional stakeholders and provides guidance to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics-oriented perspective.
• Provides guidance and expertise to stakeholders by answering a wide variety of complex questions.
• Identifies opportunities and develops large workstreams, projects, or operational processes.
• Anticipates obstacles and leverages expertise to recommend and drive implementation of solutions.

Performance Management

• Oversees team(s) responsible for supporting performance management by creating, maintaining, and updating models and forecasts.
• Reviews forecasts, analyzes risks and opportunities, and anticipates effects of internal/external metrics trends and behavior in meeting targets.
• Oversees the development of hypotheses using identified signals, trends, and risks.
• Ensures resources are available for team members to access data they need to execute ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address business questions.
• Supports partnerships with cross-functional teams to design experiments to close deviations from targets.

Culture & Values

• Leads a work team in alignment with the culture and values of the organization, including people development and diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
• Coaches team members and provides actionable, concrete project-oriented feedback (after a meeting, end-of-project review) to colleagues and/or partners.
• Supports career development goals of team and encourages opportunities for people development, movement and transformation across the team and company.

Qualifications Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Business Analytics, Finance, or related field AND minimum 8 years of experience in finance, finance accounting, management consulting, investment banking, or related field OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of people management experience.
• 5+ years of experience in the technology industry.

Suggested Skills

• Communication
• Cross-Team Collaboration
• Data Analysis
• Decision Making
• Financial Acumen
• Forecasting
• Influencing for Impact
• Innovation
• Problem Solving
• Project Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Strategic Thinking
• Trusted Advisor

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $149,000 to $242,000. 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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