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About the position
Financial Analysts ensure that Google makes sound financial decisions. As a Financial Analyst, your work, whether it's modeling business scenarios or tracking performance metrics, is used by our leaders to make strategic company decisions. While working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to solve big picture challenges. The name Google came from 'googol,' a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. And nobody at Google loves big numbers like the Finance team when providing in depth analysis on all manner of strategic decisions across Google products. From developing forward-thinking analysis to generating management reports to scaling our automated financial processes, the Finance organization is an important partner and advisor to the business.
Responsibilities
- Develop a deep understanding of Google's technical infrastructure and the economics of our business and Product Area strategies.
- Partner with Product Area Finance teams (e.g., Ads Finance, YouTube Finance, Cloud Finance) and Engineering teams to drive insights on TI spend, forecast, and annual planning.
- Deliver insights into drivers of growth, costs, metrics, and market trends. Identify risks and opportunities with actionable recommendations.
- Serve as the subject matter expert across various TI areas (e.g., helping our Product Area business partners understand and influence their technical infrastructure costs, pricing resources in our data centers, allocating costs to Product Area P&L, etc.).
- Maintain and improve both near term and multi year models for OpEx, resource/service pricing, reporting governance, and AI/ML reporting.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience in Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function, or an advanced degree.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with Core FP&A responsibilities: forecast, close, and financial reporting.
- Experience with Cloud/Technical Infrastructure.
- Ability to start and direct work in an unstructured environment; comfortable dealing with ambiguity.
- Ability to influence and persuade through the use of data.
- A track record of successfully working/communicating with senior executives.
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
- Benefits
