Google Hiring for Financial Analyst, Ads Product 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: Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Statistics, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 4 years of experience in financial analysis, data science, analytics, or related quantitative work
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with solving complex, unstructured problems, superb analytical skills, and comfort with large data sets and statistical analysis
- Familiarity with Financial Planning and Analysis processes, and experience with business resource planning
- Ability to move forward without significant oversight and direction to deliver on stakeholder’s needs
- Comfortable with managing ambiguity and a desire to manage problems
- Excellent analytical, communications, and quantitative 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 balance the roles of trusted advisor and guardian to reveal opportunity, manage risk, and optimize investment.
Our partners in Ads Privacy and Safety (APaS), User Experience (UX), and Customer Experience (CE), are responsible for keeping our users safe, help advertisers maintain their brand reputation, and use their feedback to improve google products.
As a Financial Analyst on this team, you’ll build relationships with our partners in the Ads Privacy and Safety (APaS), User Experience (UX), and Customer Experience (CE) product organizations. You will work with Product Managers, Program Managers, and execs, to manage operating budgets and ensure their work can be properly funded to sustain Google’s growth in the coming years.
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
- Quantify and justify Return on Investment of strategic investments in partnership with Product Managers and Engineers
- Identify and implement new metrics and reporting tools to measure spend and value to Google
- Coordinate across cross-functional teams to drive annual business planning
- Navigate datasets and join information from multiple systems
- Create models to assess business impact, business at risk for changes in policy and privacy decisions impacting ads, and evaluate synergistic financial value of human labeling and ads verification work
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.