Financial Analyst, Data Center Infrastructure Design

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 116,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life, and-dis/

401(k) with company match

Paid time off: 20 days/year

Sick time: 40 hours/year

Maternity leave: 28-30 weeks

Baby bonding leave: 18 weeks

Holidays: 13 paid days/year

Job summary

Google LLC in Sunnyvale, CA seeks a Financial Analyst to drive FP&A for Data Center Infrastructure. You will model scenarios, forecast performance, and partner with engineering and operations to guide strategic decisions.

You will build financial models, assess investments, and support budgeting and variance analysis across a multinational organization. Salary: US$116,000–US$166,000 with 15% bonus target plus equity and benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years FP&A, consulting, or related experience.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling in a multinational setting.

Responsibilities

• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize risks with resource optimization.
• Act as finance partner for data center design engineering.
• Architect and defend sophisticated financial models; conduct NPV analyses.
• Drive large, matrixed programs with strong financial controls and risk mitigation.
• Identify opportunities to reduce costs and strengthen competitive advantage.

Skills

FP&A experience

Budgeting

Forecasting

Variance analysis

Financial modeling

Data center finance

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in quantitative field

Job description

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:

Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA.

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

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in data center infrastructure design finance modeling within a fast-paced technology company.
• Experience with building data infrastructure (e.g., designing architecture, building data pipelines, implementing scalable monitoring) and implementing reporting solutions.
• Experience in developing strategies in fast-paced competitive 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.
• Ability to take ownership, confidence to interact with all levels, set objectives, drive results, and be a team player.

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.

Technical Infrastructure (TI) is the backbone of Google - comprising the global Data centers, networks, and integrated hardware and software that power the internal operations as well as customer-facing products like Google Cloud. Google builds and operates one of the largest, state-of-the-art private data center fleets in the world. It is a highly complex technical domain backed by vast operating and capital budgets that continue to grow year over year.

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

Responsibilities

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• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize risks followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities.
• Act as finance partner for data center design engineering organization.
• Architect, defend, and maintain sophisticated financial models. Conduct investment and NPV analyses on next-generation technical infrastructure to enable structured savings.
• Drive large, matrixed programs spanning multiple organizations, ensuring robust financial controls, process optimization, and risk mitigation across the fleet.
• Identify and advocate optimization opportunities that bend the cost curve downward, providing Google with a distinct technical and financial competitive advantage.

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 .