Google Hiring for Finance Manager, Search Analytics 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: Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA
Minimum qualifications:
- 10 years of relevant experience in finance, management consulting, corporate strategy, or a similar environment
- Experience using SQL
Preferred qualifications:
- MBA degree
- Excellent analytical and modeling skills including project management experience
- Excellent problem solving and analysis skills, combined with impeccable business judgment and ability to communicate with management team
- Ability to self-start and self-direct work in an unstructured environment; comfortable dealing with ambiguity
- Proficiency with Google Apps and other Cloud Applications
- Strong facility with SQL, R, and other statistical packages
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.
Passionate about bringing cutting edge innovative products and services to our users and customers, and enabling Google’s next generation of businesses? Come join the Search Finance team.
Search Product Area (PA) Finance team provides analytical and business planning support to the Search PA and its commercial functions. Our work covers everything from analyzing strategies, initiatives and success of high-profile business areas and early stage development products, to understanding the financial implications of new product launches.
In this role, you will lead the Search Analytics team, providing deep Finance and analytical support for Google Search, with emphasis on leveraging various deep data analytic techniques to uncover insights and recommendations to inform strategic decisions. You will partner with Product, Engineering, Partnership, and Marketing, and will play an instrumental role advising leadership on the implications of their strategies, investments and launches, and help them identify the most impactful opportunities to better serve our users.
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
- Manage and lead a team of analysts focused on bringing the best insights and understanding of search usage trends and drivers.
- Provide product and finance leadership with clear insights and recommendations based on analysis and modeling of eg drivers of user metrics, revenue, costs, industry trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Partner and collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop analytical frameworks for understanding and improving business and financial performance.
- Apply strong business judgment and a wide variety of analytic tools and techniques to develop a deep understanding of how product launches translate to user behavior, business opportunity and financial outcomes.
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