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, 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.
This role is open to Mountain View or San Francisco.
Global Revenue enables the business to achieve more by delivering scalable, compliant, and innovative revenue solutions. We partner across Finance, Product, and GTM to simplify complexity, drive operational excellence, and support global growth. Our team thrives on collaboration and adaptability, leading transformation with clarity and confidence.
We are seeking a dynamic and strategic leader to join our Global Revenue organization as a Senior Manager of Revenue Accounting, under the GTM & Product Technical Revenue pillar. This is a critical role that will assist in shaping the future of revenue accounting during a transformative period for our company. You will drive operational excellence, influence cross-functional stakeholders, and ensure compliance with complex revenue standards.
This position is designed for a leader who thrives in ambiguity, simplifies complexity, and delivers clear, actionable insights. Agility and adaptability are essential—you will navigate evolving priorities, lead through change, and inspire confidence across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership:
- Define and execute GTM and product revenue accounting strategies aligned with company objectives.
- Influence stakeholders and partner with Finance, Product, and other GTM teams to enable scalable revenue processes.
- Collaborate with Deal Desk, Legal, and Sales teams to assess non-standard agreements.
Operational Excellence:
- Manage technical revenue accounting for complex product offerings and GTM initiatives.
- Support efforts to transform the GTM engagement model by standardizing processes, improving decision-making, and using technology for scalable efficiency.
- Ensure compliance with ASC 606 and other relevant standards, while maintaining robust internal controls.
- Lead the team through monthly and quarterly close processes, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
- Formalize accounting positions through technical memos, ensuring clarity and consistency in application of standards.
People Leadership:
- Lead and mentor a top-performing team that values accountability, collaboration, and growth.
- Strengthen capabilities to enable new business models and global growth.
Change Management:
- Simplify complex concepts for diverse audiences and lead through ambiguity with confidence.
- Communicate difficult messages effectively while maintaining morale and alignment.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of progressive experience in revenue accounting
- 3+ years of experience in people management roles.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Deep technical expertise in ASC 606 and SaaS/product revenue recognition.
- Proven ability to lead teams and influence cross-functional stakeholders in a global organization.
- CPA is a plus.
- Exceptional communication and executive presence.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to simplify complexity.
- Demonstrated success in managing change and driving transformation.
- Ability to remain agile and adaptive in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Ability to influence and unify stakeholders at multiple levels
- Proficient at managing multiple, high impact workstreams simultaneously
Suggested Skills:
- Executive communication
- Navigating complexity
- People Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Revenue Accounting
LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The pay range for this role is $137,000 to $222,000. 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
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.
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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
A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
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