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Google Hiring for Data Analytics Finance Lead, Cloud Product Finance at Sunnyvale, CA 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: Kirkland, WA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience in corporate/financial project or program management, consulting, a related function, or 5 years of experience with a relevant advanced degree.
Preferred qualifications:
- MBA, CFA or equivalent educational background with significant quantitative coursework such as finance, economics, mathematics, or financial modeling.
- Experience leading cross-functional project teams through solid problem-framing and problem-structuring skills, project management skills, and the ability to communicate insights.
- Experience in business analytics, data analysis, data visualization, and working with spreadsheet software, SQL, or similar tools.
- Ability to multi-task, take initiative, and thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Excellent analytical and quantitative modeling 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. While working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to solve big picture challenges.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is the fastest growing public cloud in the world. GCP delivers virtualized compute, big data/analytics, and machine learning tools to its customers at an unparalleled planetary scale and speed, offering Google’s leading technological infrastructure to external customers. GCP is one of the fastest growing product areas at Google.
Our Product Finance team supports the Product, Engineering, and Operations teams that build and sell GCP products. We manage the Cloud Profit and Loss, including GCP business, data center expense, payroll and other OpEx. We are an integral partner and strategic financial advisers to the Cloud leadership team, advising on how to invest resources to grow a strong and sustainable business.
As a Data Analytics Finance Lead, you will be the business unit’s trusted financial, strategic, and operational advisor. By developing robust financial reporting and creating business and infrastructure efficiency key performance indicators, you will drive improvements in business outcomes. You’ll need to work cross-functionally across Business Leadership, Product, Business Planning, and Commercialization, and Engineering 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
- Be the primary finance partner for key Data Analytics business leaders and their trusted advisor on key business and product decisions, acting as a financial controller for spend management decisions and Profit and Loss accuracy.
- Create driver-based financial models to drive business decisions, forecast outcomes, and support capacity and headcount planning.
- Conduct monthly financial reviews with business leaders to provide insight into business and margin performance vs. plan, while supporting financial rhythms including annual planning, long-range planning, and quarter-end close.
- Analyze new product and feature launches including pricing, design, and positioning decisions, while driving financial and operational improvements through in-depth analysis of business, infrastructure costs, and operating expenses.
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.
