Google Hiring for Finance Manager, Ads Marketing Finance at Mountain View, CA Full Time
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
- 10 years of experience in financial planning & analysis (FP&A), corporate strategy, management consulting, business analytics or similar environment.
- People management experience.
Preferred qualifications:
- MBA or Master’s degree.
- Experience building and leading a team that can execute at high quality and speed.
- Marketing analytics or ads industry experience.
- Excellent FP&A skills including budgeting, forecasting, analysis, scenario planning, and modeling.
- Ability to solve problems and navigate complexity in a fast-paced, constantly evolving, and often ambiguous environment.
- Ability to communicate and influence effectively at executive level, with sound business judgment and strategic thinking.
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. Excellent at working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to address big picture challenges.
You are both a manager and a mentor, providing financial leadership and analytical support to partners of the core Finance team as well as giving your own team the support they need to become financial experts. You’ll keep management informed on key financial metrics and work to improve financial operation practices throughout your region.
The Marketing Finance team is a highly analytical, global team, dedicated to maximizing returns through thought leadership and partnership. Our work covers everything from developing the frameworks and success metrics to evaluate key investments, to driving strategic analyses, to working cross-functionally and cross-Finance to develop long-term business outlooks. The Finance organization is an important partner and advisor to senior leadership, and is integral to the operations and strategy of Marketing at Google.
In this role, you will work with the Google Ads team. You will lead a team of analysts to provide full finance support to business partners on the Google Ads Marketing team. You will also work in close partnership with highly talented finance colleagues from across Marketing, Sales, Accounting, and Corporate Finance.
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
- Partner cross-functionally across global/regional/local Ads Marketing teams, Business Intelligence, and Compliance.
- Partner with the Ads Marketing leadership to evaluate, structure, and execute business plans and growth initiatives, then identify and implement metrics and reporting tools to measure business results and success.
- Provide decision support to executive stakeholders, including ROI analysis and support of planning activities.
- Manage a team of financial analysts, define team vision, and provide individual coaching.
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