Associate, Strategic Finance - Ecosystem

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. The Associate for Ecosystem Strategy & Performance will partner with the Product Executive team on strategic and operational projects focused on expanding growth, health, and value within the LinkedIn member ecosystem.

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

Skills

• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Annual performance bonus
• Stock
• Benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans

Company Overview

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