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.
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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 Business Operations Associate to operate, manage, and improve the forecasting and analytics for our key consumer metrics. You will manage complex forecasting models, monitor and analyze metrics trends, explain variance drivers and other consumer engagement insights to stakeholders, while continuously improving performance management processes to ensure efficiency and effectiveness. Exceptional attention to detail, strong analytical and forecasting skills, proactive communication skills, and an ability to meet tight deadlines will be critical for success in this role.
Responsibilities
- Develop, manage, and improve complex forecast models for key consumer metrics; coordinate with teams to ensure that forecasts are both accurate, timely, and adapt to evolving operational and strategic priorities
- Monitor and analyze consumer metrics trends, identifying and explaining variances with underlying business drivers; collaborate with cross-functional teams on metric investigations to trace major deviations to their root causes and assess business impacts
- Drive proactive communication with stakeholders across the organization, owning weekly / quarterly / yearly reporting cadences on consumer metrics to ensure clear visibility and alignment on key trends and insights
- Provide insights on long-term trends for consumer metrics and assist in long-term strategic planning
- Identify and implement process improvements to ensure efficiency and effectiveness of operational performance management
- Provide ad hoc analyses and support on other key strategic priorities as needed to drive business insights and outcomes
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- 2+ years of work experience in finance, analytics, technology, operations, or a related field.
- Bachelor's degree in mathematics, computer science, engineering, economics or any quantitative major.
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to adapt to changing business needs and priorities
- Exceptional Excel modeling skills and proficiency in SQL
- Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities, with a keen analytical mindset
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to effectively manage time, prioritize tasks and work within deadlines with little supervision
- Strong project management, ability to rally teams around collaborative problem solving
- Proactive, results oriented, with a can-do attitude in meeting critical deadlines
Suggested Skills
- Data Analysis
- Forecasting
- Operational Performance Management
- Communication
- SQL
LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The pay range for this role is [$78,000 to $126,000]. 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.
Additional Information
Equal Opportunity Statement
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