Company Description
LinkedIn 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
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.
LinkedIn is seeking a Business Associate – Finance to join the Go to Market Vendor Strategy Team within the Global Business Organization (GBO). The candidate will play a key role in all financial reporting, strategic planning and analysis activities supporting our global vendor organization. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a globally recognized company experiencing significant growth and help contribute to the vision of creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. With our successful core product offerings and expanding our portfolio of innovative new products and features, our need for incredibly talented professionals has never been greater!
The successful candidate will partner with key budget owners and program stakeholders to gather, analyze, report, and communicate financial and operational information with a goal to continuously improve LinkedIn’s cost to serve. The candidate will track key financial trends, develop forecasting models and scenario analysis, and identify creative operational improvement opportunities within GBO.
The candidate will join a small team and have a significant impact on how LinkedIn manages its outsourcing resources and makes investment decisions to expand LinkedIn’s worldwide outsourcing footprint spanning across back office and client-facing operations.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Prepare and assist in developing monthly, quarterly, and annual budget review packages and financial analysis for leadership to draw insights and develop appropriate action plans to meet budget targets
- Play a key role to support FP&A (Financial Planning & Accounting) (Financial Planning & Accounting) and program functions - responding to questions on financial/budget reporting, preparing ad hoc analyses, pulling supporting data, etc.
- Support proactive engagement with internal stakeholders to validate business needs and build ROI (returns on investment) models that highlight the short-term and long-term budgetary impact
- Help drive monthly and quarterly internal budget operations such as highlighting variances and associated drivers, reconciling monthly budget spends, and collaborating with program owners to understand demand drivers and adjusting budget forecasts
- Support annual planning/forecasting tasks in collaboration with FP&A and supported program functions (collection of inputs, bottoms-up budget modeling support, demand consolidation and analysis)
- Play a key role in defining, validating, and implementing prototype dashboards summarizing the cost of outsourcing LinkedIn’s operations and sales functions
- Support cost-to-serve optimization initiatives supporting business making timely and optimal investments
- Own the invoicing process by working closely with the program owners to ensure accurate payments to service providers
- Basic knowledge of the sourcing and procurement functions to help build an efficient reporting process
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- B.S./B.A. in finance or business analytics, or equivalent practical experience
- 4+ years of experience in operations, banking, management consulting, or FP&A
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience driving business operations and financial planning within the outsourcing space
- Finance degree or Masters in a professional field
- Strong Excel (sumifs, vlookup, pivot tables, index match, etc.)
- Experience in Oracle BI, ServiceNow, Tableau, Power BI
- Proven success in financial reporting, planning and analysis (internal/management reporting, budget/forecast vs. actual, trend & scenario analysis, ROI analysis, operational modeling, etc.)
- Proven track record of executing under tight deadlines and ensuring deliverable timelines are met
- Working knowledge of financial concepts such as headcount, capital & operational expenses, accrual, cost center, chart of accounts, etc.
- Strong analytical, organizational, relationship-building, and written/verbal communication skills
Suggested Skills:
- Finance
- Reporting
- Planning
- Analysis
- Organised
Additional Information
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