Finance Analyst

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in financial planning and analysis, consulting, or a related function, or an advanced degree.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with building data infrastructure (e.g., designing architecture, building data pipelines, implementing scalable monitoring) and implementing reporting solutions.
• Experience developing strategies in fast-paced environments and managing resource allocation decisions to achieve the desired business outcome.
• Ability to work with data to produce analysis, influencing decision making with numerical analysis and generating insights.
• Ability to take ownership, and interact with all levels, set objectives, drive results, and be a team player.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work with a wide variety of departments.
  
  

About The Job

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. Working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to take on big picture challenges.

As someone who knows the workings of the core Finance team inside and out, you'll lead individual projects to transform planning, tracking and control processes. You'll provide senior level management with insightful recommendations, planning and reporting support.

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

• Perform analysis of datasets to extract information, identify trends, and generate insights for the business. Manage projects involving multiple stakeholders, timelines, organizational implications, and changing circumstances.
• Own and enhance recurring Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) processes including month end close, forecasting, financial planning, reporting, business reviews, and planning initiatives.
• Support Long Range Plan (LRP) and Annual Operating Plan (AOP) process for the efficiency and Product Profit and Loss work streams based on analytics and simulations.
• Partner with members of cross-functional teams: IaaS Product Finance, PaaS Product Finance, Capacity Planning, Product Engineering, Technical Infrastructure Software Engineering, and Cloud Strategy Operations.
• Develop and present business insights to Finance and Business leaders on key infrastructure efficiency metrics across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) product leaders and other Google Product Areas (PAs).
  
  
  

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