QualificationsFinancial modelingProject managementAnalysis skillsSQLJavaScriptBachelor’s degree
Preferred qualifications:
Experience in real estate finance
Experience in financial valuation working with complex financial models
Finance systems skills, with database, automation, or business intelligence experience (JavaScript, Python, SQL, etc.)
Experience in financial planning and analysis and/or project management with excellent analytical and modeling skills
Ability to communicate with management team with excellent problem solving, analysis skills, and business acumen
Excellent financial modeling skills with the ability to understand trends in data, build forecasts, develop insights and turn them into strategies with high impact
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.
Real Estate and Workplace Services (REWS) is the organization responsible for creating and designing our work environment. As the REWS Finance team, we provide the support to provide our leaders with the appropriate insight to make strategic decisions.
As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will be helping evaluate and drive real estate transactions annually. In this role, you will work with a team of analysts globally to manage budgets for Google’s Real Estate organization. You will partner with the Real Estate and Workplace Services teams, Product Areas across Google, and Google Leads to support allocation, strategy, and analytics.
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 with financial planning and reporting, define resource allocation models, and oversee expense, headcount, and productivity forecasts.
Develop financial models, collect market data, identify benchmarks and comparables to support the real estate decision making process.
Facilitate the REWS investment review processes, ensuring stakeholders are aligned, key deal economics are understood, and that decisions are data driven.
Develop presentations and make recommendations to REWS, Finance leadership, and other senior Google executives.
Partner with management to define and analyze business health metrics and measure productivity of key corporate investments. Assist in identifying performance improvement opportunities.
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