Associate, Finance COE - Programs & Innovation

Company Description

Linked In is the world's 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. We're also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that's built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun - where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description

This role will be based in Mountain View, CA;
Sunnyvale, CA (Bay Area)

The Strategic Finance Center of Excellence (COE) is a newly formed team focused on centralizing, standardizing, and modernizing key financial operations to unlock scale, accuracy, and strategic capacity across Linked In. As we build for the future, this team will act as business process owners, driving design and continuous improvement across high-impact financial workflows such as accrual processes and headcount & position management.

The associate will be primarily focused on headcount/position management work streams in our Marketplace/GTM business unit to begin, with additional scope coming over time. This team will also support the discovery and adoption of new tools and tackle automation opportunities.

We are seeking a detail-oriented and process-minded Associate to join the COE. This individual will take ownership of end-to-end work streams, working to identify inefficiencies, implement scalable solutions, and embed best practices across finance. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in complexity, enjoys solving operational challenges, and is skilled at transforming fragmented and siloed processes into structured, scalable solutions through thoughtful design and cross-functional collaboration.

At Linked In, 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 Linked In office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

Responsibilities:

Strategic Thinking

* Business process owner for designated financial work streams with a focus driving on consistency, scalability, and operational excellence. Designs and redesigns processes to enhance accuracy, reduce manual effort, and improve end-to-end efficiency across financial operations

* Contributes to strategy development with business partners, within a limited scope.

Stakeholder Influence

* Collaborates with functional finance partners and systems teams to define processes / best practices and drive change management

* Leverages insights and data to develop narratives to influence stakeholders with some guidance. Deliver clear, data-informed narratives and presentations to support strategic and operational decision-making

Execution & Organization

* Ensures quality assurance of outputs and execution against defined timelines and SLAs, including validating accuracy, completeness, and adherence to agreed standards prior to delivery

* Operationalizes processes and supports new ideas to improve processes by providing a data-driven perspective, with the support from more senior team members. Gathers stakeholder feedback and synthesizes into data-driven recommendations.

* Develops standard work streams and operational processes according to defined procedures.

Performance Management

* 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.

* Executes ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address well-defined business questions, deriving actionable insights from results.

Culture & Values

* 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.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

* 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.

Preferred Qualifications

* 3+ years of relevant experience (FP&A, Finance Ops or related), ideally in process design or redesign, particularly in financial operations such as expense and headcount management (e.g., accruals, position management, forecasting)

* Strong analytical skills with proficiency in Excel , experience in SQL and data tools (e.g., Power

BI, Tableau);

* Experienced in program management and owning projects end-to end (including effective communication, stakeholder management), with the ability to drive alignment across functions and complex stakeholder maps

* A proactive, problem-solver with strong sense of ownership paired with strong analytical…