Director, Data & Analytics - Finance

Director, Data & Analytics - Finance

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

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.

The Financial Data team is part of the Center for Operations Innovation within the CFO organization. We design, govern, and scale the data ecosystem that powers LinkedIn's financial decision-making, reporting, automation, and analytics. Our team includes data governance experts, master data management specialists, and data foundations & data triaging professionals who partner closely with Finance Technology, Engineering, and business leaders to ensure financial and corporate data is trusted, standardized, and ready for action.

We are seeking a Director of Data & Analytics to lead the Financial Data team. This leader will own building our central finance data team, partnering with Engineering to re-architect our financial data ecosystem & financial data products, setting up a master data management & data governance program, supporting ongoing efforts to improve our financial data foundations & triaging, and consistently finding better ways to serve the data needs of our business partners & stakeholders. You'll work cross-functionally to ensure our data is consistent, secure, and optimized for analytics, reporting, and automation - enabling faster insights and better decisions across LinkedIn.

Key Responsibilities :

• Lead and build out the central Finance Data team.
• Define and execute the financial and corporate data strategy, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, analytics priorities, and business goals.
• Oversee data governance and MDM programs, including policies, standards, and processes for core financial entities (chart of accounts, cost centers, suppliers, customers, products) and metrics (revenue, bookings, HC, expenses).
• Partner with Finance Technology to design and maintain data models, pipelines, and semantic / application layers.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to drive improvements in core data that hits the General Leger
• Ensure financial data complies with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with Finance, Engineering, IT, and Data Science to integrate and standardize financial data across systems.
• Enable automation, AI, and analytics initiatives by ensuring high-quality, governed data is readily available.
• Act as a senior thought leader and change agent for financial data management across the enterprise.

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LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $173,000 to $280,000. 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.