Google Hiring for Director, Finance, Google Workspace and Maps at Sunnyvale, CA Full Time
Applications will be accepted through November 13th, 2021.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Technology or equivalent practical experience.
- 15 years of experience with Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) and leading and developing teams.
- Experience managing and growing a finance team within a SaaS-based business.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience managing complex business problems from inception to delivery, including developing structured solutions.
- Experience developing teams, with demonstrated coaching skills and ability to navigate ambiguity.
- Solid business acumen, with an understanding of business drivers and value-creation.
- Demonstrated ability to influence decision-making at the VP-level, and align incentives across multiple stakeholders.
- Ability to thrive in a fast paced environment, and maintain executive presence and perspective in the midst of changing timelines and rapid decision making.
- Ability to lead and inspire a growing organization.
About the job
Our Cloud Product Finance team leads the financial management for Product, Engineering, and Operations teams that build and sell Google Cloud products, including Google Cloud Platform, Geo Enterprise (Google Maps Platform) and Google Workspace. We are a thought partner and trusted strategic adviser to the Cloud leadership team, advising on optimizing business economics while scaling businesses. In this role, you will support the Geo Enterprise Maps products and Workspace.
Google Workspace by Google Cloud is a cloud-based productivity suite that is revolutionizing the way people communicate and communicate with one another. Serving users across the globe, our team is focused on delivering the tools that shape the people’s web experience at home, school, and work. Geo Enterprise extends the Google Maps mission by empowering millions of businesses and developers to build solutions that help people navigate, explore and get things done in the real world with Google Maps Platform (GMP).
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
- Provide financial management of the businesses, and work to drive growth and profitability
- Partner with Product, Sales and Infrastructure General Managers/VPs of Finance to determine optimal investment strategies for growth; develop Product Profit and Loss and frameworks for profitability analysis.
- Be a thought leader in building state of the art operational efficiency into the overall product portfolio, by looking holistically at product offerings, infrastructure costs, and Sales incentives.
- Hire, develop, and grow a team to build a finance organization to support large businesses managing multiple VPs and Product General Managers. Provide career development and growth to the managers on the team, and set the vision and strategy for the overall organization.
- Manage cross-functional partnership with Sales, Engineering, Capacity, and Product teams to ensure optimal capital investments for the platforms.
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