Minimum qualifications:
- 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.
- Experience with business partnership.
Preferred qualifications:
- MBA or Master's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience supporting an engineering, technology project, or Research and Development investment portfolio.
- Experience building financial models of large scale programs including identifying, assessing and controlling for uncertainty and risk.
- Experience in identifying opportunities for business improvement and defining/measuring the success of those initiatives.
- Experience in SQL and Python.
- Demonstrated leadership, cross-functional communication and people management skills.
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.
Technical Infrastructure (TI) is the foundation of Google, with nascent investments in Machine Learning (ML) at the forefront of Google’s investment in the future. Global data centers, networks and integrating hardware and software power both our unique customer products and services and our internal operations. As Finance Senior Analyst and business partner to TI’s senior leadership team in support of technology project investments, you will work on financial and economic analysis to support this critical and complex business area. The multi scale of our annual investments in infrastructure requires strong financial leadership spanning planning, process and risk management, control, opportunity identification and analytics.
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.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $137,000-$201,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Develop understanding of computing hardware and systems domain, think strategically, develop an economic point of view, communicate with executives and cross-functional working group members.
- Lead finance work groups for recurring and project-based efforts. Define inputs for financial modeling of new products to understand financial and economic impacts and risks.
- Provide executive management with clear insights into drivers of business and financial performance based on risks, detailed modeling, and understanding of Technical Infrastructure technology.
- Lead financial and strategic planning of hardware and software Research and Development programs via formal Business Planning and regular Business Reviews. Drive high value analysis of and insights on improving core TI processes with billions of dollar business impact.
- Collaborate with and manage cross-functional teams (Engineering, Operations, Product Finance, Corp Finance, Accounting, etc.) to provide financial support for Google’s infrastructure technology investments.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
