Job Description

This role will be based in LinkedIn's office in Sunnyvale.

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.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Manager, Corporate Strategic Finance, to lead in-year P&L management and the forecast process. This role will own in-year P&L scenarios and risk and opportunity tracking, recommend the P&L lock position at each monthly forecast, and drive the closing and forecast cycle across Corporate Finance and Strategic Finance teams. The position plays a key role in connecting business signals to P&L impact and improving forecast accuracy through strategic insights and process optimization.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in P&L management, forecasting, and scenario analysis, with sharp business acumen to translate data into actionable strategies. Success in this role requires a collaborative mindset and the ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority, aligning financial planning with business performance goals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop in-year P&L scenarios by evaluating business performance, financial risks, and emerging opportunities, and recommend financial actions to the CFO.

• Partner across Finance to align forecast outcomes with agreed scenarios and translate insights into clear, actionable recommendations.

• Lead monthly forecast and quarter-end close cycles, establishing timelines, guidance, ownership, and review processes across Corporate Finance and Strategic Finance.

• Integrate business inputs into a consolidated corporate P&L outlook and serve as the central point of coordination for forecast decisions and communications.

• Drive disciplined cycle execution and continuous process improvement to increase forecast accuracy, efficiency, and accountability.

• Own executive and corporate P&L deliverables, ensuring financial data, commentary, and performance narratives are accurate, consistent, and decision-ready.

• Use automation and AI-enabled tools to streamline scenario planning, reporting, and recurring deliverables, while supporting ad hoc P&L analyses and strategic finance priorities.

Responsibilities:

Strategic Thinking

• Identifies new opportunities for growth and drives strategy development with business partners.

• Leads the validation and execution of complex pressure testing for growth opportunities.

• Operationalizes ideas, develops plans for execution, and identifies ways to automate processes and improve data quality.

• Leads collaborative relationships with other teams and leverages input and feedback to develop a deep expertise.

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

• Partners with cross-functional stakeholders and provide guidance to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics-oriented perspective.

• Provides guidance and expertise to stakeholders by answering a wide variety of complex questions.

• Drives the development of multiple large workstreams, projects, or operational processes.

• Proactively identifies obstacles and leverages expertise to recommend innovative solutions.

Performance Management

• Supports performance management by creating, maintaining, and updating highly complex models and forecasts.

• Reviews forecasts, analyzes risks and opportunities, and anticipates effects of internal/external metrics trends in meeting targets.

• Leverages expert knowledge to develop hypotheses using identified signals, trends, and risks.

• Coaches and trains junior team members executing ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address highly complex business questions, deriving actionable insights from results.

• Partners with cross-functional teams to design experiments to close deviations from targets.

Culture & Values

• Models and reinforces the culture and values of the organization, including people development and diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

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

• Supports career development goals of team members and helps others junior team members navigate transformation, new opportunities and skill development.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's 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

• Demonstrates strong strategic thinking with the ability to translate business challenges into actionable financial plans

• Skilled in P&L management, forecasting, and scenario analysis, with deep understanding of risk and opportunity management and margin drivers

• Communicates insights clearly and persuasively to influence cross-functional stakeholders and senior leadership

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, managing multiple priorities, and driving continuous process improvement.

• Builds trusted relationships and fosters collaboration across diverse teams.

• Champions data quality, automation opportunities, and scalable solutions to improve forecast accuracy and efficiency.

• Experience using AI tools or automation to improve forecast processes, reporting quality, and insight generation; Copilot/Cowork experience is highly preferred.

Suggested Skills

• Communication

• Cross-Team Collaboration

• Influencing for Impact

• Problem Solving

• Stakeholder Management

• Strategic Thinking

Additional Information

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $159,000 to $258,000 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.

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