Google Looking For Central G&A Finance Manager, Google Cloud at Sunnyvale, CA Full Time

Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business or a related field or equivalent practical experience.

10 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function, or 8 years with a relevant advanced degree.

Experience in team building and development.

Preferred qualifications:
10 years of relevant experience in finance, management consulting, corporate strategy or similar environment, including FP&A and project management experience.

Demonstrated ability to manage complex, cross-functional projects and work as both an individual contributor and within a large cross-functional team.

Ability to influence through strong relationship management, business expertise and data knowledge to manage a complex set of issues through executive and staff stakeholders. Excellent framing and presentation skills, able to distill message and make complex simple.

Excellent analytical and quantitative modeling skills; combined with impeccable business judgment.

About the job

Financial Managers ensure that Google makes sound financial decisions. As a Financial Manager, your work, whether it’s modeling business scenarios or tracking performance metrics, is used by our leaders to make strategic company decisions. While working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to solve big picture challenges.

Google is developing groundbreaking cloud solutions for enterprise companies and institutions, leveraging 16 years of experience in building secure, reliable, and scalable cloud technology. Google’s enterprise offerings include the underlying cloud infrastructure through to business user-facing apps.

Specifically, the product areas are: Google Cloud Platform, including compute, storage, and networking infrastructure (IaaS), data and analytics, security, the App Engine developer platform (PaaS); Google application software (SaaS Apps) including Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Drive, Slides, Sheets, Sites; Google Maps Solutions for businesses; as well as Google for Education.

Strategic Finance aims to be an exceptional Finance function delivering the most pertinent insights and strategic financial recommendations to leadership, influencing Corporate Finance towards Cloud’s unique needs, and streamlining tasks and communications across Cloud to deliver financial analyses of the highest standards, while fostering an environment for team members to achieve their highest career potential and develop deep skills in their roles.

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

Work in close partnership with Cloud finance teams and Corporate finance to manage and report on the Cloud P&L with an emphasis on G&A. Continuously improve and streamline processes to make them more accurate, timely, and less resource intensive. Provide ad-hoc analysis to help leadership understand business performance and opportunities.

Monitor key business drivers with a good understanding of the overall business model, implement scalable processes and automation, define priorities and deliver data-driven and actionable insights that drive decision-making.

Run a robust annual business planning process including developing policies, process, timelines, cadence, tools, and communication.

Provide support and preparation across all opex review meetings, srive monthly/quarterly financial forecast process and reporting cycle. Provide required support to integrate financials of acquired companies. Build and maintain strong, cross-functional relationships.

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