Deal & Spend Governance Senior Accountant

Google Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 128,000 - 187,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's Deal and Spend Governance team manages contracts and spend governance across the company, ensuring effective controls, risk management, and scalable processes.

Senior Accountant I will partner with Controllership, Finance, Legal, Sales, Product, and Marketing to translate policies into actionable governance, drive process improvements, and provide executive-level visibility for critical spend decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance or equivalent.
• CPA or CA certification.
• 7 years of accounting experience, or 5 years with an advanced degree.

Responsibilities

• Design and govern cross-functional spend workflows for real estate and infrastructure commitments.
• Influence executive leadership to address control framework gaps and scalable governance.
• Identify scalable process improvements and automate manual workflows.
• Author and roll out cross-functional spend policies.
• Partner with stakeholders to test, enforce spend controls across contracting platforms.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Project management

Executive communication

Attention to detail

Process improvement

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance

CPA or CA

MBA or advanced degree

Job description

Google's Deal and Spend Governance team manages contracts and spend governance across the company, ensuring effective controls, risk management, and scalable processes.

Senior Accountant I will partner with Controllership, Finance, Legal, Sales, Product, and Marketing to translate policies into actionable governance, drive process improvements, and provide executive-level visibility for critical spend decisions.