Spend Manager, gUP

Google; Dublin; Presencial; EUR 112.000 - 114.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Google Ireland is seeking a Spend Manager to lead the development and maintenance of operational-level financial reporting and dashboards. You will identify cost drivers, outliers, and opportunities for efficiency while directly influencing program outcomes and scaling the spend team’s impact.

You will collaborate with cross-functional partners to foster data-driven decision-making and financial accuracy, serving as a strategic partner across gUP and the broader Operations and Finance teams.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in a stakeholder-facing role supporting spend management, procurement operations, financial governance, or business operations.
• 7 years of experience analyzing data and generating business insights.
• 7 years of experience developing operational process solutions, and working with cross-functional teams to drive these changes.

Responsabilidades

• Maintain and scale spend reporting dashboards, prioritize enhancements, govern health metrics, and train stakeholders on key financial terminology.
• Develop detailed operational reports and deliver monthly/quarterly financial summaries highlighting trends, variances, and optimization opportunities across gUP.
• Conduct deep-dive analyses on spend data to uncover cost drivers, identify outliers, and transition ad-hoc reports into centralized dashboards.
• Partner with the broader Operations and Finance teams to understand their financial needs and deliver data‑driven insights that support decision‑making.
• Collaborate on cross-functional initiatives and broader financial projects aimed at improving operational efficiency and optimizing the team’s footprint.

Conocimientos

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Structured thinking

Educación

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

MBA or Master's degree or CSCMP certification

Herramientas

SQL

Analytics

Operations Six Sigma

Descripción del empleo

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in a stakeholder-facing role supporting spend management, procurement operations, financial governance, or business operations.
• 7 years of experience analyzing data and generating business insights.
• 7 years of experience developing operational process solutions, and working with cross-functional teams to drive these changes.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in a stakeholder-facing role supporting spend management, procurement operations, financial governance, or business operations.
• 7 years of experience analyzing data and generating business insights.
• 7 years of experience developing operational process solutions, and working with cross-functional teams to drive these changes.

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA or Master's degree in a related field or CSCMP certification.
• 7 years of experience using data analysis to drive decision making.
• 7 years of experience building relationships with stakeholders or clients.
• Experience in data center equipment environments or computer component manufacturing.
• Knowledge of SQL, analytics and Operations Six Sigma certification or other relevant operations coursework.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to apply structured thinking and logic to your work and provide solutions to challenges.

About The Job

A problem isn’t truly solved until it’s solved for all. That’s why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Program Manager at Google, you’ll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish — working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.

As a Spend Manager, you will lead the development and maintenance of operational-level financial reporting, governance of spend health metrics, and the continuous improvement of financial dashboards. By identifying cost drivers, outliers, and opportunities for efficiency, you will directly influence program outcomes and help scale the spend team's impact. You will collaborate with cross‑functional partners and foster an environment of data‑driven decision‑making and financial accuracy. You will serve as a strategic partner to cross-functional stakeholders, transforming complex spend data into actionable insights that drive decision‑making and optimization.

In gTech Users and Products (gUP), our mission is to advocate for Google’s users by creating helpful and trusted experiences across the product ecosystem. We achieve this by meeting partners and consumers where they are with support and help, representing their needs with our product partners and proposing fixes and features that elevate their engagement with Google’s diverse product ecosystem. Additionally we provide a range of product services that ensure our products are optimized for every user, no matter where they are in the world (e.g., localization, digitization, partner integration and more).

Individual pay is determined by factors including job‑related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Ireland: €112000 - €114000 (EUR) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Maintain and scale spend reporting dashboards, prioritize enhancements, govern health metrics, and train stakeholders on key financial terminology.
• Develop detailed operational reports and deliver monthly/quarterly financial summaries highlighting trends, variances, and optimization opportunities across gUP.
• Conduct deep-dive analyses on spend data to uncover cost drivers, identify outliers, and transition ad-hoc reports into centralized dashboards.
• Partner with the broader Operations and Finance teams to understand their financial needs and deliver data‑driven insights that support decision‑making.
• Collaborate on cross-functional initiatives and broader financial projects aimed at improving operational efficiency and optimizing the team’s footprint.

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 .