Sr Manager, Strategic Finance - R&D
Accounting & Finance
Mountain View, CA, USA
USD 146k-237k / year + Equity
Posted on May 1, 2025
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
This role can be based in our Mountain View, Sunnyvale, San Francisco, or NYC.
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’s R&D Finance Team is seeking a Senior Manager, Strategic Finance who is a passionate, strategic, analytical, and hands-on leader to provide strategic finance support to our Core AI and Developer Platforms and Experience (DPX) orgs, helping them achieve their ambitious goals. As a Senior Manager, Strategic Finance, you will play a pivotal role in driving cross-functional initiatives that blend strategy and execution. You will create clarity and accelerate the execution of key corporate priorities. Partnering closely with team leadership, you will help clarify strategy, define and track success metrics, and analyze the impact of initiatives on the team’s performance, while also providing core financial planning support. This role manages one analyst.
Responsibilities:
Strategic Thinking
Basic Qualifications
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.
Additional Information
Equal Opportunity Statement
We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at accommodations@linkedin.com and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.
Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:
LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pay Transparency Policy Statement
As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.
Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates
Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.
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
This role can be based in our Mountain View, Sunnyvale, San Francisco, or NYC.
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’s R&D Finance Team is seeking a Senior Manager, Strategic Finance who is a passionate, strategic, analytical, and hands-on leader to provide strategic finance support to our Core AI and Developer Platforms and Experience (DPX) orgs, helping them achieve their ambitious goals. As a Senior Manager, Strategic Finance, you will play a pivotal role in driving cross-functional initiatives that blend strategy and execution. You will create clarity and accelerate the execution of key corporate priorities. Partnering closely with team leadership, you will help clarify strategy, define and track success metrics, and analyze the impact of initiatives on the team’s performance, while also providing core financial planning support. This role manages one analyst.
Responsibilities:
Strategic Thinking
- Identifies new opportunities for growth within the 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.
- Leads collaborative relationships with other teams, leverages input and feedback to develop ideas, and sees opportunities for growth.
- Communicates implications of work (e.g., forecasts, analyses, trends) and necessary context to senior management and key stakeholders to drive action.
- Drives alignment by synthesizing problems and communicating the point of view to support decision-making on strategic issues.
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders and provide guidance to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics-oriented perspective.
- Identifies opportunities and develops large workstreams, projects, or operational processes.
- Oversees team(s) responsible for supporting performance management by creating, maintaining, and updating models and forecasts.
- Reviews forecasts, analyzes risks and opportunities, and anticipates effects of internal/external metrics trends and behavior in meeting targets.
- Leads a work team in alignment with the culture and values of the organization, including people development and diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
- 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 minimum 8+ years of experience in finance, finance accounting, management consulting, investment banking, or related field OR equivalent experience.
- Minimum 5+ years of people management experience.
- 5+ years of experience in the technology industry working directly with R&D teams
- 3+ years of experience in managing performance metrics or KPIs with R&D teams
- Strategic Thinking
- Communication
- Cross-Team Collaboration
- Influencing for Impact
- Data Analysis
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.
Additional Information
Equal Opportunity Statement
We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at accommodations@linkedin.com and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.
Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:
- Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
- Having interviews in an accessible location
- Being accompanied by a service dog
- Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview
LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pay Transparency Policy Statement
As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.
Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates
Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.