Principal, Finance Business Architecture & Solution Strategy

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. This role will be based in San Francisco or Sunnyvale. 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. We are seeking a Principal Process Architect, Finance Business Architecture & Solution Strategy to join the Architecture & Strategy pillar within the Center of Ops Innovation (COI) at LinkedIn. This role operates as a strategic accelerator for Finance transformation, sitting upstream of delivery and engineering to define business architecture, solution strategy, and decision frameworks that enable scalable, high-quality execution. As a Principal Architect, you will serve as the catalyst for translating Finance strategy into clear, decision-ready solution paths simplifying complexity, shaping enterprise-wide consistency, and ensuring initiatives begin with strong problem framing, well-defined options, and explicit decision guardrails. This role is critical in shifting Finance transformation from fragmented, reactive execution to intentional, scalable, and proactive architecture-led delivery. Responsibilities Define future-state Finance business capabilities across domains (R2R, S2P, O2C,FP&A.) Develop business-led architecture frameworks and referen