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Google Hiring for Accounting Analyst at Chicago, IL Full Time
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or equivalent practical experience
- CPA, CA, or other professional accounting accreditation
- 5 years of experience with public accounting
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with SAP ERP systems
- Ability to work in a cross-functional, fast-paced environment, and to lead/drive complex initiatives
- Excellent business acumen with the ability to deal with ambiguity
- Excellent technical accounting, analytical, project management, and process improvement skills
- Excellent communication skills, ability to work well both independently and in a team environment
About the job
Our mission is to deliver value to the business through accurate and timely financials, analysis, and insights of compensation and benefit expenses. We do that using processes and structures optimized for risk and efficiency. We achieve this through close business partnership across finance and operational functions on strategic initiatives, which ensures our accounting processes can adapt and scale ahead of business needs.
As an Accounting Analyst, you’ll advise on financial reports required by government regulations, and review, analyze, and interpret financial and budgetary reports. You will collaborate with our global team and advocate best practices.
Responsibilities
- Manage monthly close activities and present month-end results to management.
- Identify opportunities to centralize, eliminate, or automate activities.
- Establish scalable processes to support different compensation and benefit plans.
- Review processes and implement controls to ensure we are mitigating risk for Google.
- Manage, establish, implement global processes for the accounting of initiatives (ensuring SOX compliance and operational excellence), and prepare for, and assist with internal, SOX, and external audits.
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.
