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Financial Analyst

4 Days ago • 4 Years + • Finance

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resource-allocation

resource-planning

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Job Description

Financial Analysts at Google ensure sound financial decisions by modeling business scenarios, tracking performance metrics, and providing insights to leaders. This role involves leading projects to transform planning processes, offering senior management insightful recommendations and support. As a business partner to the network team, the Analyst will provide financial expertise, pricing strategies for network products, cost allocation, demand forecasting, and efficiency improvement projects. Responsibilities include quarterly/annual business reviews, agreement reviews, and developing key performance dashboards. This position requires strong communication, cross-functional collaboration, and experience with data analysis tools like SQL. The work directly influences resource allocation decisions across engineering, business, and finance.

Must have:

Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent experience
4+ years FP&A, consulting, or related experience
SQL or other programming/scripting language experience
Executive presentation experience
Lead quarterly business reviews and annual planning

Good to have:

Experience with network product pricing/cost allocation
Demand forecasting using regression analysis
Ability to influence and interact with all levels

Perks:

Bonus
Equity
Benefits

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
4 years of experience in Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function, or an advanced degree.
Experience in working with data sets using SQL or another programming/scripting language.
Experience presenting to executive audiences.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience with network product pricing or cost assignment/cost allocation.
Understanding of demand forecasting using regression, probability and decision tree/scenario analysis.
Ability to influence and interact with all levels, set objectives, deliver results, and be a team player.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across teams.

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 will lead individual projects to transform planning, tracking and control processes. You will provide senior level management with insightful recommendations, planning and reporting support.

As a Financial Analyst, you will be an essential finance business partner to the team that builds and operates Google's network. You will be a financial expert, trusted partner, and responsible for providing insights.

In this particular role, you will have an opportunity to work regularly with the business' leadership team. You will be embedded in the business and be a partner (direction setter vs task taker).Your work which includes monthly/quarterly finance reviews, agreement diligence/reviews, modeling business scenarios, tracking performance metrics, will be used by our engineering, business, and finance leaders to make resource allocation decisions.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $108,000-$158,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about .

Responsibilities

Lead quarterly business reviews, annual planning and planning efforts.
Partner with business teams to price network products and assign cost of network product.
Partner with business to assess demand and utilization.
Develop and report/dashboard key metrics to help business understand trends, both opportunities and challenges.
Lead cross-functional projects to identify opportunities to deliver efficiency (value identification) and report on progress to help business team achieve the goal efficiency (value capture).

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$108.0K - $158.0K/yr (Outscal est.)

$133.0K/yr avg.

Austin, Texas, United States

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