Financial Analyst, Cloud Finance at Google

Financial Analyst

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. With your analytics and financial acuity, you'll liaise between the Finance team with the functional areas it supports. You resolve issues related to forecasting, planning, resource prioritization and business profitability, and you help translate analyses into easy-to-understand presentations.

Responsibilities:

• Perform analysis of datasets to extract relevant information, identify trends, and generate actionable insights for the business.
• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize risks followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities.
• Manage projects involving multiple stakeholders, timelines, organizational implications, and changing circumstances.

Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience. 2 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function, or an advanced degree. Experience executing full-cycle FP&A functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting. Experience with programming (i.e. SQL).

Preferred qualifications: Experience with building financial reporting, produce analysis, implementing scalable monitoring and implementing reporting solutions. Experience in developing strategies in fast-paced competitive environments, impeccable business judgment for resource allocation decisions to achieve the desired business outcome. Experience influencing and partnering with business stakeholders. Ability to work with data to produce analysis, influencing decision making with numerical analysis and generating insights.