Google Hiring for Senior Financial Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis Hub at Chicago, IL 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: Chicago, IL, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience in financial planning & analysis (FP&A), consulting or a related function.
- Experience with database concepts and SQL.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with large enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
- SAP experience.
- Experience creating and maintaining monthly/quarterly reporting and delivering to business leaders; strong ability to turn data into actionable insights.
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. Working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to take on big picture challenges.
As someone who knows the workings of the core Finance team inside and out, you’ll lead individual projects to transform planning, tracking and control processes. You’ll provide senior level management with insightful recommendations, planning and reporting support.
The Financial Planning and Analysis (“FP&A”) teams within Finance help our business leaders grow financially sustainable businesses by providing operational direction and strategic oversight, leading the modeling of complex business scenarios, the tracking of business performance metrics, and the execution of budgeting, forecasting, and analysis. FP&A teams are geographically dispersed and tightly embedded in the businesses with which they partner. The FP&A Hub is a function within FP&A designed to optimize processes that are core and common across all teams.
Your role will be to help build and scale solutions for the analysis of allocated costs between Google’s administrative functions and product areas. You will drive projects for end-to-end initiatives for analysis of cost allocations, including report standardization and automation while partnering with front-line FP&A teams and Business Intelligence.
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
- Design process to standardize reporting to deliver allocations and their drivers to Business Finance Leads for timely review and sign-off
- Deliver recommendations and prioritize recommendations to Business Intelligence on future dashboard roadmap
- Partner with Corporate Controllership, Corporate FP&A, Corporate Systems and Program Management to ensure timely success of allocations operations and optimization of future changes
- Ensure completeness and accuracy of monthly allocation monthly reporting
- Support validation of allocated financial results as needed
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