Associate, Strategic Finance - LinkedIn Marketing Solutions

About the position

Our Monetization Strategic Finance team is searching for a strategic and results-driven Associate to support the LinkedIn Marketing Solutions (LMS) organization. This person will partner closely with the R&D cross-functional team to define product strategy and roadmaps, performance manage against our business objective, and improve how we operate by setting OKR targets across products. This role specifically will be focused on deepening our understanding of the Feed ecosystem, LMS's core revenue stream, and will partner closely with R&D teams across both our LMS and organic teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain robust financial models for the Feed Ads business, including detailed forecasts.
• Collaborate closely across product, engineering, data science, and sales teams to understand business drivers, evaluate strategic initiatives, and provide financial guidance for new product launches.
• Establish and refine KPIs across the Feed to monitor the financial health of our business.
• Analyze variances and trends against those KPIs to provide actionable insights to senior leadership.
• 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.
• Collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics-oriented perspective, with some supervision.
• 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.
• 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Business Analytics, Finance, or related field AND minimum 1 years of experience in finance, finance accounting, management consulting, investment banking, or related field OR equivalent experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Independently capable of seeking information, solving conceptual problems, corralling resources, and delivering results in challenging situations.
• Experience with digital advertising a plus.
• Experience in SQL a plus.

Benefits

• Annual performance bonus
• Stock options
• Comprehensive benefits package