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Google Hiring for Senior Financial Analyst, Google Workspace Sales Finance at Chicago, IL Full Time
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Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Austin, TX, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or equivalent practical experience
- 7 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function
Preferred qualifications:
- Familiarity with the SaaS/cloud industry and knowledge of key metrics such as bookings, backlog, and business growth
- Ability to take initiative and self-direct work in an unstructured environment, and comfortable managing ambiguity
- Ability to communicate and influence effectively at an executive level and form excellent working relationships across business, operational, and technical functions
- Ability to write data pipelines in SQL and automate financial reporting deliverables
- Ability to prioritize deliverables and navigate ambiguity
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.
Google Cloud Go-To-Market (GTM) Finance is responsible for providing reporting, insights, and processes to Google Cloud Sales teams. Our team works with cross-functional partners in Sales Operations, Sales, Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), and Google Cloud Systems to enable operations around financial planning, business growth reporting, forecasting, compensation administration, profit and loss reporting, expense management, business growth analysis, investment prioritization, and more. In this role, you will drive the financial support and decision making for our Google Workspace Field Business teams.
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
- Implement processes and establish the cadence of standard insights and analysis for the Google Workspace Field Business.
- Automate, standardize, and publish monthly reporting packages and present global and regional insights to leadership.
- Analyze business growth and bookings cohorts by customers, segmentation, channel, product, and region. Provide insights to Field Sales teams.
- Make decisions through data analysis, key performance indicators, and by analyzing financial/operational information and reports to provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management for decision making purposes.
- Forecast periodic business growth, including variance analysis of business and drivers of performance, book to business growth conversion modeling, field productivity analysis, and field investment recommendations.
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.
