Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics, Finance, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience in financial planning and analysis, corporate finance, or accounting.
- Experience writing SQL queries and retrieving data from relational databases.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience working with large datasets.
- Experience using SQL to extract and manipulate data, or with other programming or scripting languages .
- Experience with FP&A and/or project management.
- Knowledge of spreadsheet software and business modeling.
- Excellent problem-solving, analysis, and modeling skills combined with impeccable business judgment and the ability to communicate with management teams.
- Excellent quantitative, written, and presentation skills. Innovative, organized, and thorough with eagerness to further develop these skills.
About the job
Ads Finance is part of Google’s Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) organization, providing financial and analytical support to Google’s business organization. Our work is integral to the operations and strategic decision-making of the commercial teams across all our advertising products. From understanding market and usage trends to exploring the productivity and returns on our various investments, the Finance organization is an important partner and adviser to the commercial leaders. In this role, you will provide Finance support to sales leadership/management, driving decisions around resource allocation and business growth.
As a Strategic Financial Analyst, you will ensure that Google makes sound financial decisions. Your work, whether it’s modeling business scenarios or tracking performance metrics, is used by our leaders to make strategic company decisions.
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
- Provide executives (i.e. Business/Finance VPs, Managing Directors) with insights into drivers of business growth, risks, and opportunities. Partner with leaders in sales organization to understand drivers of business growth and drive monetization of Google’s properties.
- Engage cross-functional and product finance teams to drive scalable analyses, tools, and insights.
- Lead decision-making on investment strategies for products, identification of market drivers for business generation/growth, and resource allocation.
- Analyze financial results and performance metrics on a periodic basis to support decision-making. Build and maintain financial models to understand the viability of projects, analyze expected returns, and support resource allocation.
- Provide decision support for day-to-day operational decisions and macro-level project decisions through financial analysis.
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