Google Hiring for Data Analyst, Ads Finance at New York, NY Full Time
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location for this position from the following: New York, NY, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics, Finance, or equivalent practical experience
- 4 years of experience with quantitative data analysis
- Experience in SQL or similar data analytic tools to extract and manipulate data, delivered through dashboards
Preferred qualifications:
- Advanced SQL knowledge and good coding practices
- Operate with minimal supervision and able to make informed, well-reasoned decisions independently
- Ability to work well cross-functionally
- Ability to independently make sound judgment calls in ambiguous situations
- Impeccable problem solving, analytical thinking, teamwork skills
About the job
The Ads Finance team partners with Ads Leadership across Product, Engineering, and Sales (GBO) to drive ads decisions with financial stewardship. We are strategic partners, driving impact through analysis grounded in hard data. We bring an independent point of view and bias to action on a collaborative approach, all while focusing on the development of our people.
In this role, you will have a chance to be in the middle of the action. You will work closely with the Legal, Economics, Regulatory Affairs Finance, and Product Finance teams to determine the optimal approach to execute complex finance data pulls and analyses. Building upon your strong technical and analytical skills, you will develop expertise in Ads Finance data sets, enabling you to execute on a number of mission critical data and analytics projects. As your expertise grows, you will get involved in ever more complex and varied work.
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
- Effectively run complex finance projects in critical high-visibility areas such as regulatory inquiries, external publications (e.g. blog posts, congressional testimonies), strategic planning, and other strategic projects; use learnings from these efforts to design scalable future processes
- Leverage script language proficiency to conduct complex analytical projects
- Coordinate across a virtual team of finance managers and directors to identify and mobilize domain and data experts, and to drive insight and alignment on how best to conduct analyses
- Communicate business critical information to senior stakeholders in Finance, Product, and Legal teams; tee up potential solutions for business problems. Create and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders
- Partner with the Finance Data & Analytics team to evolve our Finance datasets to better serve business and regulatory response needs
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.
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