Sr. Associate Strategic Finance
Accounting & Finance
United States
USD 96k-156k / year + Equity
Posted on Jul 11, 2025
Company 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.
Job Description
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 role can be based in San Francisco or New York.
Our GTM Horizontal Strategic Finance team is searching for a results-driven individual to partner closely with senior leaders across the Marketing Org. We provide actionable insights by bridging operational data and financial outputs in order to build, manage, and operate a world-class Marketing org. The team focuses on partnering directly with our CMSO (Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer) and her leadership team to drive impact across the business.
The role is highly cross-functional, indexing heavily on the individual’s adaptability & flexibility in balancing operational rigor, generating data-driven insights, and driving implementation of strategic solutions. The ideal candidate has an entrepreneurial bent, and will:
Responsibilities:
Strategic Thinking and Analysis
Basic Qualifications
The pay range for this role is $96,000 to $156,000. 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.
Additional Information
Equal Opportunity Statement
We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at accommodations@linkedin.com and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.
Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:
LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pay Transparency Policy Statement
As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.
Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates
Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.
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.
Job Description
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 role can be based in San Francisco or New York.
Our GTM Horizontal Strategic Finance team is searching for a results-driven individual to partner closely with senior leaders across the Marketing Org. We provide actionable insights by bridging operational data and financial outputs in order to build, manage, and operate a world-class Marketing org. The team focuses on partnering directly with our CMSO (Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer) and her leadership team to drive impact across the business.
The role is highly cross-functional, indexing heavily on the individual’s adaptability & flexibility in balancing operational rigor, generating data-driven insights, and driving implementation of strategic solutions. The ideal candidate has an entrepreneurial bent, and will:
- Provide the “so-whats” and recommend budget allocation & utilization during financial planning and in-quarter management
- Solve highly complex and ambiguous financial, operational & strategic problems within LinkedIn’s Marketing Org
- Have exceptional business acumen and skills to operate autonomously to identify, prioritize, partner, influence and implement high-impact initiatives to support company-wide priorities
Responsibilities:
Strategic Thinking and Analysis
- Conduct in-depth analysis across all aspects of marketing; develop understanding of key drivers to identify improvement areas
- Advise senior members of Marketing Organization through data-driven recommendations; drive strategic projects to benefit short- and long-term growth opportunities
- Validate recommendations by executing ad hoc analysis; derive actionable insights to prove/disprove hypothesis and define real-world implications
- Support Marketing organization by performance managing and optimizing our marketing budget; develop models, metrics, and forecasts to maintain financial rigor
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders; provide actionable insights from financial metrics to answer a wide variety of strategic questions.
- Proactively identify gaps related to financial metrics, outlook, or processes; remedies gap within defined procedures, taking charge in driving the needed solutions
- Synthesize problems and communicates implications of work (e.g., forecasts, analyses, trends) to drive alignment and decision-making on issues within area of responsibility
- Leverage insights and data to develop narrative; adept in weaving numbers into storyline to influence stakeholders
- Effectively communicate point of view/ advise to senior stakeholders to deliver a call to action
- Contributes to the culture and values of the organization through organization-wide events and initiatives
- Proactively seeks out feedback and provides constructive feedback to colleagues
- Seeks out new opportunities for career growth and skill development
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Business/Data Analytics, Finance, or related field, AND minimum 3 years of experience in high-growth technology companies, finance, accounting, management consulting, investment banking, OR equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of experience in the technology industry
- 1+ years of experience working with marketing teams
- General understanding of marketing measurement and processes
- Strong proficiency in SQL, Excel
- Financial modeling/forecasting
- Data analysis
- Analytical & conceptual problem solving
- Project management
The pay range for this role is $96,000 to $156,000. 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.
Additional Information
Equal Opportunity Statement
We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at accommodations@linkedin.com and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.
Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:
- Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
- Having interviews in an accessible location
- Being accompanied by a service dog
- Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview
LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pay Transparency Policy Statement
As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.
Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates
Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.