Google Hiring for Senior Financial Analyst, Finance Strategy and Policy at San Francisco, CA 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: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or equivalent practical experience
- 7 years of experience in finance, accounting, management consulting, or corporate strategy
- Experience with SQL
- Experience in R, Python, Tableau, or Looker
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience across multiple finance disciplines, such as FP&A, accounting (including internal controls), or finance systems, drawing upon varied perspectives to design processes and guide decisions
- Understanding of finance functions, including operations, accounting, processes, risks and controls
- Ability to solve problems and navigate complexity in a fast-paced, constantly evolving, and often ambiguous environment
- Ability to take charge, set objectives, drive to results while building long-term relationships across all levels of an organization
- Ability to understand trends, develop insights, and prepare recommendations
- Strong financial modeling, influencing, and communication skills. Excellent analytical and presentation skills
About the job
The Capital Allocation and Planning organization provides intelligent insights to optimize Google’s trajectory, glue together the various parts of Finance and craft the big picture story for executives. We provide the analyses needed by Google’s executive leadership for effective resource allocation, capital investment, market insights, performance tracking and to drive best practices across the organization. We lead strategic system initiatives and deliver rich, insightful data for decision-making.
Within this organization, the cross-functional Analytics team is focused on the analyses, processes and governance across many of Google’s business areas. You will identify and support initiatives to improve cost efficiency and operating leverage, enable and adjudicate cross-functional agreements, broker alignment between Product Area and functional plans, and ensure reasonable cost allocation methodologies.
The Finance Strategy and Policy team with cross-functional Analytics focuses on the business rationales, methodology, and processes by which we reflect the way teams at Google work with and support each other in their respective financial information; primarily through allocations and cross-charges.
You will be working across Product Areas, Functions, and multiple Finance teams to build scale and structure around how Alphabet defines, manages, and governs its financials across the organizational matrix, navigating through highly ambiguous environments. As part of the broader Capital Allocation and Planning organization, you will combine a view of Google’s businesses with many core Finance processes and systems. You will be responsible for setting principles and providing direction with partnership and input from many stakeholders, as well as implementing, socializing, and managing change.
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 with Business Finance teams and Product Areas to improve relevance and scalability of allocations, including understanding business drivers and large scale change management as needed.
- Provide insight into, and understand opportunities to improve, detailed allocations methodology and process, and how related data moves through our financial and Business Intelligence systems. Oversee and guide the work of junior analysts.
- Support development and implementation of principles and policies for business and shared cost allocations across Alphabet.
- Collaborate with Controllership and SEC Reporting to operate close processes, sign-off processes, and governance over segment, Product Area, and shared costs.
- Refine and drive requirements for finance transformation efforts, financial systems infrastructure, and reporting tools in support of these processes. Provide support for various strategic initiatives and ad hoc management requests.
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