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As a Financial Analyst for our Global LTS Monetization team, you will play a critical role in understanding the pulse of the business and providing valuable insights to drive decision-making and support growth initiatives. You will be responsible for monitoring key financial and operational metrics, managing eDash to provide real-time visibility into business performance, supporting the preparation of quarterly business reviews, standardizing reporting processes globally and regionally, maintaining key performance metrics, and evaluating customer-centric metrics to help derive actionable insights.
Key Responsibilities
Pulse of the Business:
Analyze and report on metric trends while monitoring key financial and operational metrics globally and regionally to discern business insights, patterns, anomalies, and potential opportunities or risks.
Autonomously extract, manipulate, and analyze extensive datasets to track essential financial and operational metrics, gaining insights into the business dynamics on a global and regional scale
Provide variance analysis, insights and narratives based on trend analysis to support CFO org meetings.
Collaborate with various teams (i.e. SOPS, Pricing, Regional finance) and align on metric reporting and business drivers.
Business Performance Reporting:
Assist in the preparation of materials for quarterly business reviews, including financial analysis, variance explanations, and performance summaries.
Support senior management in understanding financial results, trends, and implications for future business strategies, utilizing self-sufficiency in data pulling and modeling to provide accurate and actionable insights.
Continuously improve the QBR process by standardizing reporting templates and enhancing analytical frameworks in collaboration with regional finance & cross-functional global teams (biz ops, sops, central finance etc.).
Collaborate with the broader monetization team to help provide metric input into the long range planning process.
Standardized Reporting Development:
Establish and maintain a source of truth for key performance metrics, such as revenue, product performance, and customer-centric metrics like ARR and NRR, at both global and regional levels.
Ensure accuracy and reliability of financial data by validating and reconciling information from various sources.
Standardize and streamline reporting processes across all metrics globally and regionally to improve consistency, efficiency, accuracy in top-line reporting and facilitate timely decision-making.
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field; or relevant work experience
3+ years of financial planning and analysis experience, with a focus on forecasting, revenue projection, and strategic financial management
Preferred Qualifications:
Strong analytical skills with proficiency in building models from scratch and utilizing advanced analytical techniques.
Proficiency in SQL for data querying, manipulation, and analysis.
Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, and data visualization techniques (Power BI).
Self-driven individual with a proactive approach to problem-solving and a demonstrated ability to work independently.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Detail-oriented mindset with a commitment to accuracy and precision in financial analysis and reporting.
Prior experience in corporate or strategic FP&A is advantageous.
Suggested Skills:
LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is [$66,000 to $108,000]. 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 office 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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