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Associate, Ecosystem Strategic Finance
Associate, Ecosystem Strategic FinanceLinkedIn • San Francisco, CA, US
Associate, Ecosystem Strategic Finance

Associate, Ecosystem Strategic Finance

LinkedIn • San Francisco, CA, US
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Associate, Ecosystem Strategic Finance

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 will be based in our San Francisco, CA or Mountain View, CA office.

Our Ecosystem Strategic Finance team is searching for an Associate for Ecosystem Strategy & Performance. This person will partner with our Product Executive team on strategic and operational projects focused on expanding growth, health, and value delivered within the LinkedIn member ecosystem. A strong candidate will be able to demonstrate a track record of strategic insight, analytical rigor, and synthesized communication to senior leadership.

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.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications :

  • 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.
  • Preferred Qualifications :

  • Background in management consulting, investment banking, private equity, strategy or an operational or growth role within a technology company
  • Experience with SQL
  • Proactive and passionate : You're independently capable of seeking information, solving conceptual problems, corralling resources, and delivering results in challenging situations
  • High-energy, team-first attitude : You're motivated to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment to help our growing business
  • Highly analytical : You're analytical, with experience decomposing and solving real world business problems
  • Concise and effective communications : You're able to articulately present and debate recommendations with cross-functional teams and senior leadership
  • Suggested Skills :

  • Data Analysis
  • Communication
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Project Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • 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.

    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
  • A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

    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.

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