Finance Analyst

Google LLC; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 116,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Mountain View, CA, USA is seeking a Financial Analyst to model business scenarios and track performance metrics to support strategic decisions across Google ads and related products.

You will partner with Global Product Solutions and work with finance, agreements, and commercial teams across regions to drive annual planning and risk assessment, while maintaining rigorous data analysis and process stewardship.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of FP&A, consulting, or related function, or 2 years with an advanced degree.
• Experience with agreement structures, terms, and governance.
• Experience writing SQL queries and retrieving data from relational databases.
• Experience planning and managing the strategic and operational level, with experience in consulting, digital, or advertising.
• Excellent FP&A and spreadsheet skills with experience creating financial dashboards or complex models from scratch.
• Ability to manage and influence senior stakeholders and foster cross-functional networks without formal authority.
• Excellent problem-solving and heavy data analysis skills, with impeccable business judgment.

Responsibilities

• Provide thoughtful leadership, drive insights and analysis to support the Media Incentives team in managing the financial performance of pilot incentive programs.
• Coordinate between Finance and Go-to-Market stakeholders across the globe to manage and report on Global agreements, ensuring consistent expectation setting around goals and performance for all relevant markets.
• Leverage technical expertise to provide quantitative analysis around incentives programs, including ROI and incrementality studies, collaborating with other teams.
• Interact with Finance, Product, and partner teams to assure strategic and analytical alignment, as well as data consistency and efficiency.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Financial modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or related field

Tools

SQL

Relational databases

Job description

Google Mountain View, CA, USA ; New York, NY, USA

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or anotherquantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.

4 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function, or 2 years with an advanced degree.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with agreement structures, terms, and governance.
• Experience writing SQL queries and retrieving data from relational databases.
• Experience planning and managing the strategic and operational level, with experience in consulting, digital, or advertising.
• Excellent FP&A and spreadsheet skills with experience creating financial dashboards or complex models from scratch.
• Ability to manage and influence senior stakeholders (e.g., Directors, SVPs) and foster cross-functional networks without formal authority.
• Excellent problem-solving and heavy data analysis skills, combined with impeccable business judgment and the ability to address business challenges from a variety of backgrounds.

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.

The Media Incentives Finance team ensures that Google makes sound financial decisions for our Ads business. As a Financial Analyst, your work, whether it's modeling investment scenarios or tracking performance metrics, is used by our business leaders to make strategic decisions. You will work on multiple projects at a time and be focused on the details while finding creative ways to manage big-picture challenges.

In this roe, you will have the opportunity to partner with the Global Product Solutions team and work directly with finance, agreements, and commercial teams across different regions. You will understand key business metrics, highlight risks and opportunities via analytics, and drive process stewardship such as target setting and annual 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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $116000 - $166000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits Learn more about benefits at Google .

• Provide thoughtful leadership, drive insights and analysis to support the Media Incentives team in managing the financial performance of pilot incentive programs, setting appropriate success metrics and tracking attainment accordingly.
• Coordinate between Finance and Go-to-Market (GTM) stakeholders across the globe to manage and report on Global agreements, ensuring consistent expectation setting around goals and performance for all relevant markets.
• Leverage technical expertise to provide quantitative analysis around incentives programs, including support for return on investment (ROI) and incrementality studies, working in partnership with other teams.
• Interact with other Finance, Product, and partner teams to assure strategic and analytical alignment, as well as data consistency and efficiency.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire .

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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