Financial Analyst, Business Finance

1 Month ago • 4 Years + • Finance

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Job Description

Financial Analysts at Google ensure sound financial decisions. This role involves modeling business scenarios, tracking performance metrics, and supporting strategic company decisions. Working on multiple projects simultaneously, analysts focus on details while solving big-picture challenges. As a strategic business partner to the GBO management team (primarily focused on advertising sales), you'll support Greater China's Business Finance operations, including reporting, forecasting, target setting, analysis, and budget management. Responsibilities include supporting critical financial processes like revenue reporting and forecasting, providing insights and recommendations to management, performing analyses to identify growth drivers, and collaborating with cross-functional teams on strategic business initiatives. The role requires strong analytical skills, financial acumen, and the ability to influence senior leadership.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree in quantitative field or equivalent experience
  • 4+ years FP&A, consulting, or related experience (or advanced degree)
  • Advanced spreadsheet proficiency
  • Strong analytical & modeling skills
  • Ability to influence senior leadership
Good to have:
  • SQL familiarity
  • Experience with large datasets
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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another 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.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Advanced proficiency in spreadsheets, familiarity with SQL, and analytical experience working with large volumes of complex data.
  • Ability to craft and deliver a message with credibility to influence senior leadership.
  • Ability to self-direct work in an unstructured environment.
  • Financial acumen and effective analytical, modeling skills to analyze/structure agreements, support decisions, and provide post mortem analysis.
  • Robust analytical skills and impeccable 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. While working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to solve big picture challenges.

As a Financial Analyst, you will act as a strategic business partner to the GBO management team with a primary focus on advertising sales. You will support Greater China's Business Finance operations such as reporting, forecasting, target setting, analysis, and budget management. You will work closely with your peers and GBO management to provide deep analytical insight into both short term and longer term commercial insights and plans. You will act as a key advisor to the leadership team on topics such as business performance, market investment strategies, and resource planning.

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

  • Support critical financial processes such as revenue reporting, forecasting, target setting, OPEX planning, and budget management.
  • Provide management with clear insights and recommendations into the business, market trends, risks and opportunities leading to business enhancement and business actions.
  • Perform analyses to identify growth drivers to influence business activity.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to structure and execute strategic business initiatives to provide performance and analytical insights.
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