Financial Analyst, EMEA Marketing

Google; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Financial Analyst to support its dynamic Marketing business. The role focuses on financial modeling, budgeting, and performance tracking to guide strategic decisions across Google products.

As part of the Finance team, you will manage one of Google’s largest expense areas, ensuring sound budget management and insightful analyses. Collaboration with cross-functional partners will be essential to drive sustainable growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in FP&A, consulting, or a related function.
• Experience executing full-cycle FP&A including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling in a multinational setting.

Responsibilities

• Drive a sustainable EMEA marketing function by enabling sound financial decision-making.
• Execute complex analytics to deliver business results and ensure sound quarterly forecasts and minimal FvA variances.
• Build and scale analytical capabilities from dashboards to AI-enabled solutions.
• Partner with Marketing, align with the champion-challenger framework, and manage multi-million dollar product area budgets.
• Drive a culture of performance via KPIs and ambitious yet achievable goals.

Skills

Financial planning & analysis

Budgeting

Forecasting

Variance analysis

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

Tools

Financial reporting tools

Data dashboards

Job description

• 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.
• Experience executing full-cycle financial planning and analysis functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.

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.
• Experience executing full-cycle financial planning and analysis functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.

Preferred qualifications:

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

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.

In this role, you will work on Google’s dynamic Marketing business. Using your analytical skills, excellent relationship skills, and solid business partnering, you will help manage one of Google’s largest expenses to drive sustainable growth. You will play a key role in effective budget management, performance reviews, and process transformation.

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

• Drive a sustainable EMEA marketing function by enabling sound financial decision-making.
• Execute complex analytics to deliver business results. Ensure sound quarterly forecasts and minimal FvA variances.
• Build and scale new analytical capabilities from dashboards to AI-enabled solutions.
• Partner with Marketing, aligning with the champion-challenger framework. Manage multi-million dollar product area budgets, advising on resource allocation for maximum impact.
• Drive a culture of performance via sound KPIs, and ambitious yet achievable goals.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .