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Sr Manager, FP&A (International)

LinkedIn

LinkedIn

Dublin, Ireland
Posted on Jul 19, 2024
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, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.

We are looking for a Senior Manager, Finance Business Partner reporting into FP&A to partner with top executives in our LinkedIn Sales Solutions (LSS) business and who is adept at advising and influencing key leaders on business growth, investment tradeoffs, resource management, organizational structure and strategic direction.

In this role, you will be responsible for managing the financial forecasting and P&L for LSS Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Latin America (LATAM) teams. You will be the key strategic financial advisor partnering with multiple regional Sales Leaders, their directs and regional cross-functional leadership. You will play a central role in decisions affecting our go-to-market strategy as we accelerate through an unprecedented phase of company growth and success at scale. Your finance, strategy and accounting expertise will enable you to identify and mitigate issues before they arise in order to safeguard the integrity of financial models. You will own the development and operational excellence of forecast models as well as partner with Business Ops, Sales Ops and HR to ensure financial and operational rigor of the business. As a pivotal partner to the EMEA/L teams, the clarity, energy and results you deliver will be visible across the LSS leadership team. This role reports to Sr Director of LinkedIn Sales Solutions, FP&A.

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with internal FP&A teams and cross-functional partners to lead and support strategic analyses to address the evolving business dynamics
  • Provide management with insights into drivers of revenue, expense, risks and opportunities
  • Audit and review complex financial models to ensure they are both accurate and updated to reflect changing business needs, including their development, improvement and maintenance
  • Develop and implement tools, systems, and processes to support the successful completion of timely and accurate close-periods and forecasts
  • Develop and validate quarterly business reviews for the EMEA, LATAM regions
  • Partner closely with leadership, cross functional leads, and key finance leaders across the company to represent EMEA, LATAM regions
  • Take a leadership role in the coordination of the various planning cycles (annual planning, quarterly/monthly forecasts, weekly outlooks)
  • Maintain a consistent meeting cadence between key leaders and cross functional business partners
  • Deliver a leadership voice and point of view to LSS leadership team on strategic financial matters
  • Manage the variance analysis of expenses, headcount, commissions, by clearly explaining the business reasons for variances and adjusting the forecast models to reflect adjustments


Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

  • 7+ years of financial analysis or related experience
  • BA/BS degree in finance, accounting or related field, or related experience
  • 5+ years analytical background working directly in an FP&A, Strategic Finance, Business Operations or related environment modeling bookings, revenue and expenses


Preferred Qualifications:

  • Leader with strong executive presence, interpersonal skills, influence capability and social intelligence
  • Ability to demonstrate thought-leadership, teamwork, anticipate business needs and manage relationships with senior stakeholders
  • Ability to think critically and to question the output of financial models or investment cases and consider options for improvement or provide thoughtful alternatives
  • Proactive, results oriented, with a can-do attitude and strict attention to detail in meeting critical deadlines
  • Diligent, highly accurate with extreme attention to detail, and exceptional organizational skills
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Direct experience working with an Enterprise sales team and subscription-based revenue
  • An understanding of accounting theory and practice (e.g., basic revenue recognition rules and proper expense timing)
  • Advanced Excel modeling skills and competency in Word and PowerPoint
  • Strong systems skills with preference toward Hyperion (Essbase), Oracle Financials, Salesforce CRM, Dynamics CRM
  • MBA degree


Suggested Skills:

  • Strategic Finance
  • Leadership
  • Collaboration


Additional Information

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All Dublin jobs at LinkedIn are available under our ReturnIn Scheme, for people returning to work from family or care responsibilities. This will include extra support through interview stage, and if successful, an extended induction according to your needs. To access the scheme just let your recruiter know that you're a returner when you apply.

All Dublin jobs at LinkedIn are available under our ReturnIn Scheme, for people returning to work from family or care responsibilities. This will include extra support through interview stage, and if successful, an extended induction according to your needs. To access the scheme just let your recruiter know that you're a returner when you apply.

Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates
This document provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://lnkd.in/GlobalDataPrivacyNotice