Sr. Manager – Strategic Finance – Linkedin Talent Solutions

Sr. Manager – Strategic Finance – Linkedin Talent Solutions

Requirements

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Partners with cross-functional stakeholders and provides 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 work-streams, projects, or operational processes.
• Proactively identifies obstacles and leverages expertise to recommend innovative solutions.
• 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.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in the technology industry.
• Strategic Thinking
• Cross-Team Collaboration
• Data Analysis
• Forecasting
• Stakeholder Management