We are seeking a Senior Planning & Spend Management Analyst to support both production operations and internal IT organizations within LinkedIn’s Infrastructure Business Engineering (IBE) team.
This role is critical to driving financial discipline, cost transparency, and operational efficiency across infrastructure and technology investments. The successful candidate will partner closely with Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, and Engineering teams to integrate budgeting with procure-to-pay processes, track performance against financial plans, and identify opportunities to optimize LinkedIn’s cost to serve employees and members.
You will operate at both a strategic and executional level—supporting long-term planning while prioritizing and enabling near-term operational actions.
At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, and clarity. This role is hybrid and will be performed from both home and a LinkedIn office on select days based on business needs.
Responsibilities
Planning, Budgeting & Financial Management
- Integrate budgets with procure-to-pay processes and systems to ensure all purchases and payments align with approved financial plans.
- Ensure accurate purchase requisition (PR) creation, including budget mapping, project attribution, and precise GL coding.
- Partner with Finance to track, analyze, and report actuals vs budget; investigate variances and support reconciliation efforts.
- Support capital and operating expense planning, including depreciation, accruals, and fixed asset alignment.
Procurement & Spend Operations
- Enable procurement services across the organization, providing guidance on procurement plans, metrics, policies, and reporting.
- Manage high volumes of complex and high-value transactions while maintaining strong vendor relationships.
- Review order confirmations for accuracy and compliance; drive timely resolution of discrepancies.
- monitor expensed and amortized expenses to observe accrual reporting and capture accurate operational expenses
- Work closely with Supplier, Contracts, and Payments teams to ensure smooth end-to-end execution.
Analytics, Reporting & Process Optimization
- Maintain and enhance spend analytics tools; enrich data to improve categorization, insights, and decision-making.
- Identify risks, inefficiencies, and cost-saving opportunities across procurement and supply chain processes.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to streamline procurement, planning, and spend governance workflows.
- Enhance Budget planning programs with financial, operational, and supplier risk analysis.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with internal IBE teams, Finance, Supply Chain, and Engineering to support operational and strategic initiatives.
- Actively participate in critical global supply chain management and procurement transformation projects.
- Support global teams across multiple time zones while ensuring consistency and quality of execution.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (B.S., B.B.M., B.E.) or MBA in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7+ years of experience in product-based companies within IT or infrastructure organizations, working with vendors and internal stakeholders.
- 5+ years of experience in budget planning or financial planning in a technology or product environment.
- 2+ years of experience in procure-to-pay operations related to data center, infrastructure sourcing, procurement, or asset management.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills.
- Advanced analytical skills with experience in Power BI or other BI/reporting tools.
- Proficiency in Advanced Excel and ERP/procurement systems (Oracle, Coupa, Zip, ServiceNow, Jira, or similar).
- Working knowledge of financial concepts including CapEx/OpEx, depreciation, amortization, accruals, fixed assets, cost centers, and chart of accounts.
- General understanding of procure-to-pay processes (PRs, POs, pricing, invoicing, payments).
- Ability to drive change through process improvement and system enhancements.
- Technical understanding of infrastructure domains such as data centers, networks, compute, storage, end-user computing, and enterprise IT systems.
- Proven ability to operate in large, complex, global environments with remote teams.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize, manage time effectively, and work under pressure.
Suggested Skills
- Financial Planning & Budget Management
- Procure-to-Pay Operations
- Spend Analytics & Reporting
- ERP & Procurement Systems
- Supplier & Stakeholder Management
- Process Optimization & Governance
- Infrastructure Cost Management
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