Sr. Manager, Strategic Finance - Infrastructure - job 1 of 3

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This role will be based in Mountain View or San Francisco. 

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. 

We’re looking for a Strategic Finance Senior Manager to partner with the Infrastructure team on setting priorities, planning resources, and guiding key decisions. You’ll work closely with leaders across Infrastructure, R&D, and Finance to support budgeting and investment strategy, using financial insights to help the team scale and make effective long-term decisions. 

You will drive the development of ROI assessment and portfolio allocation processes, including methods for strategic resource allocations and performance tracking of key projects across Infra. In addition, you will strive to continuously produce high quality insights into business performance and expectations. 

You will thrive in leading through critical and complicated processes, bringing order and clarity of approach and communications to drive effective decision making. Your ability to fly at multiple altitudes will manifest in effectively advising the top Infra leaders in the company, ensuring that the strategy is strong and financially sound and appropriate for the ever-changing needs of the business.  

Responsibilities 

• Partner closely with infrastructure engineering leaders on identifying new infra efficiency initiatives, scoping these out and getting them prioritized/resourced 
• Sizing financial and non-financial impact of existing major projects and transformation initiatives 
• Understanding how infra engineering HC and efficiency project spend are allocated (to what initiatives) and ensuring they are allocated to highest ROI initiatives; make recommendations on initiative portfolio and reallocation of resources where necessary 
• Design and set targets against true north and signpost metrics for the infra team; performance manage against a subset 
• Track impact of initiatives against key metrics, both individually and in aggregate 
• Support story telling of infra strategy in exec documents 
• Identify and get prioritized projects to improve the operating model within infra, and between infra and other eng teams 
• Identifies new opportunities for growth within scope of responsibility and adjacent areas and drives strategy development with business partners. 
• Supports team members in operationalizing ideas and drives the development of plans for execution.  
• 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.  
• Partners with cross-functional stakeholders and provides guidance to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics-oriented perspective.  
• Oversees team responsible for supporting performance management by creating, maintaining, and updating models and forecasts.  
• Oversees the development of hypotheses using identified signals, trends, and risks.  
• Ensures resources are available for team members to access data they need to execute ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address business questions.  
• Coaches team members and provides actionable, concrete project-oriented feedback (after a meeting, end-of-project review) to colleagues and/or partners.  

Basic Qualifications 

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Business Analytics, Finance, or related field AND a minimum of 8 years of experience in finance, finance accounting, management consulting, investment banking, or related field OR equivalent experience. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Advanced Excel modeling skills and competency in Word and PowerPoint 
• Diligent, highly accurate with extreme attention to detail, and exceptional organizational skills 
• Leader with strong interpersonal skills, influence capability and social intelligence 
• Masterful written and verbal communication skills 
• Demonstration of critical thinking – ability to question the output of a financial model and consider options for improvement 
• Proactive, results oriented, with a can-do attitude and strict attention to detail in meeting critical deadlines 
• A minimum of 3 years of people management experience. 
• 5+ years of experience in the technology industry

Suggested Skills 

• Communication 
• Cross-Team Collaboration  
• Influencing for Impact  
• Problem Solving  
• Strategic Thinking  

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $149,000 to $242,000. 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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