Sr. Manager, Strategic Finance - R&D

Company Description

LinkedIn is the worlds 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. Were also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture thats 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.  

LinkedIns R&D Finance Team is seeking a Senior Manager Strategic Finance who is a passionate, strategic, analytical and hands-on leader to provide strategic finance support to the R&D organization. In this high impact role, you will drive consolidation from across the R&D teams, managing the overall R&D P&L in partnership with the rest of the team, leading centralized planning for R&D, driving long range planning as well as annual planning/forecast/close processes and coordinating with the corporate finance team. You will drive process improvements and develop enhanced management reporting tools, dashboards, and key performance metrics to facilitate informed decision-making. Additionally, you will serve as the primary finance partner for a team within the Engineering organization, providing strategic support, performance management, and on-going decision support. This role manages 2 individuals. 

Strategic Thinking 

• Identifies new opportunities for growth within scope of responsibility and adjacent areas and drives strategy development with business partners.  
• 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 

• 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 

• 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.  

Culture & Values 

• Coaches team members and provides actionable, concrete project-oriented feedback (after a meeting, end-of-project review) to colleagues and/or partners.  

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications 

• Bachelors 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 working directly with R&D teams or in a corporate finance, consolidation, or similar role 

Suggested Skills 

• Strategic Thinking 
• Influencing for Impact 
• Communication 
• Cross-Team Collaboration 
• Financial Acumen  

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. 

The pay range for this role is $146,000 - $237,000. 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.

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• Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
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• Being accompanied by a service dog
• Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview

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