Accountant, Google Cloud
Job Summary
Job Description
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or equivalent practical experience
- 4 years of experience in accounting or a related function
- Strong accounting principles knowledge
- Experience in managing project planning, status reporting, and issue tracking
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional and international teams
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Chartered Accountant (CA)
- Experience in timeline estimation, meeting facilitation, and comprehensive project documentation
- Ability to anticipate questions and challenges, propose next steps and roadblock solutions
- Ability to adapt to changes and grow in a fast-paced environment
2 skills required
Job Details
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in accounting or a related function, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in Accounting, Business, or Finance.
Preferred qualifications:
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Chartered Accountant (CA).
- Experience in managing project planning, status reporting, timeline estimation, issue tracking, meeting facilitation, and comprehensive project documentation.
- Ability to anticipate questions and challenges, propose next steps and roadblock solutions, and effectively manage time and follow work plans.
- Ability to approach with a strong work ethic, capable of growing in a fast-paced environment and adapting to changes.
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional and international teams, and engage with executive management and partners.
- Excellent problem solving skills with a proven track record of taking initiatives and working independently.
About the job
Google accountants are a savvy bunch who handle the core accounting responsibilities at Google. You know your accounting principles and the full accounting process end to end. You'll advise on financial reports required by governmental regulations, and review, analyze, and interpret financial and budgetary reports. Every day is a new challenge, and you're continually looking for ways to help our team become more efficient and effective. A team player at heart, you collaborate with our global team, advocate best practices and pitch in where needed. You move fast while keeping your attention to detail, and you tap into your problem-solving skills to support business objectives.
Google Controllers are a savvy bunch who handle the core accounting and compliance responsibilities at Google. As a member of this team, you know your accounting principles and the full financial process. You will advise on financial and accounting matters and will review, analyze, and interpret data for accounting and reporting. Every day is a new challenge, and you are continuously looking for ways to help our team get better at what we do, in the most efficient way possible.
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
- Be responsible for supporting day-to-day operations and close processes, including key report data validation, preparation of journal entries, reconciliations, balance sheet and profit and loss variance analysis, monthly financial reporting, etc.
- Prepare post-close audit files required from Alphabet, International, Cloud, and External Audit requests. Design and implement solutions that can scale, while identifying and escalating barriers to management.
- Navigate, pursue, and achieve access to key data sources. Create exceptional detailed documentation for all processes and tasks with the expectation of keeping these up-to-date with an ever changing environment.
- Elevate steady-state manual processes to a semi-automated or automated scalable solution. Understand the existing control environment with the ability to further identify risks and effectively communicate and execute opportunities for improvements.
- Manage data consistency cross various systems and be responsible for related IPE testings.
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A problem isn't truly solved until it's solved for all. Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.
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