Financial Analyst - Google
Austin, TX
About the Job
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function, or an advanced degree.
- Experience in working with data sets using SQL or another programming/scripting language.
- Experience presenting to executive audiences.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with network product pricing or cost assignment/cost allocation.
- Understanding of demand forecasting using regression, probability and decision tree/scenario analysis.
- Ability to influence and interact with all levels, set objectives, deliver results, and be a team player.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across teams.
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 will lead individual projects to transform planning, tracking and control processes. You will provide senior level management with insightful recommendations, planning and reporting support.
As a Financial Analyst, you will be an essential finance business partner to the team that builds and operates Google's network. You will be a financial expert, trusted partner, and responsible for providing insights.In this particular role, you will have an opportunity to work regularly with the business' leadership team. You will be embedded in the business and be a partner (direction setter vs task taker).Your work which includes monthly/quarterly finance reviews, agreement diligence/reviews, modeling business scenarios, tracking performance metrics, will be used by our engineering, business, and finance leaders to make resource allocation decisions.
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
- Lead quarterly business reviews, annual planning and planning efforts.
- Partner with business teams to price network products and assign cost of network product.
- Partner with business to assess demand and utilization.
- Develop and report/dashboard key metrics to help business understand trends, both opportunities and challenges.
- Lead cross-functional projects to identify opportunities to deliver efficiency (value identification) and report on progress to help business team achieve the goal efficiency (value capture).