Job DetailsFull-timeEstimated: $100,000 – $140,000 a year18 hours ago
Minimum qualifications:
10 years of experience in strategic finance, strategy and operations, consulting, or similar areas.
2 years of people management experience.
Experience working with SQL and creating financial dashboards or models.
Preferred qualifications:
Experience in large-volume data environments in software, internet, media, or telecommunications industries.
Experience partnering with technical, business, and operations colleagues.
Ability to help out other team members as necessary while promoting positive morale.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate with highly technical management team.
Solid problem solving and analytical skills combined with excellent business judgment.
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. Excellent at working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to address big picture challenges.
You are both a manager and a mentor, providing financial leadership and analytical support to partners of the core Finance team as well as giving your own team the support they need to become financial experts. You’ll keep management informed on key financial metrics and work to improve financial operation practices throughout your region.
Google Customer Solutions (GCS) works with mid-market and small advertisers to make them successful across Search, Display and Video Ads (DVA), and YouTube.
GCS Ads Finance is the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) partner for GCS. In this role, you will identify business growth drivers, forecast future performance, provide recommendations on resource allocation, and analyze the lifetime value of our advertisers.
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
Lead annual planning, quarterly business reviews, and business reviews with leadership.
Partner with leaders in sales organizations to understand drivers of business growth, risks, and opportunities; support insights with comprehensive data analysis for GCS Americas business.
Drive strategic projects jointly with cross-functional partners, including selecting metrics and building an early warning system for business attainment based on operational metrics.
Build and maintain financial models to understand the viability of projects, analyze expected returns, and support resource allocation.
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