Senior Financial Analyst, Data Center Infrastructure Design

Google; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 141,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Sick time

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

Holidays

Job summary

Google LLC is seeking a Financial Analyst for its Global TI Finance team in the United States. The role focuses on FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, and strategic financial analyses to guide major data center decisions.

As a key finance partner, you will build and defend complex models, drive multi-year plans, and support leadership with actionable insights and rigorous analytics. This position offers competitive compensation and equity opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of FP&A, consulting, or related function, or an advanced degree.
• Experience executing budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling in a multinational company.
• Experience with business partnerships, strategy development, and leadership presentations.

Responsibilities

• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize risks with coordinated resource use to minimize impacts or maximize opportunities.
• Act as finance partner for data center design engineering organization.
• Architect and defend sophisticated financial models and perform NPV analyses for infra investments.
• Drive large, matrixed programs spanning multiple organizations with robust controls and cost optimization.
• Identify opportunities to bend the cost curve downward for a competitive advantage.

Skills

FP&A experience

Budgeting & forecasting

Variance analysis

Financial modeling

Leadership presentations

Business partnerships

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/Finance

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.
• 7 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function, or an advanced degree.
• Experience executing full-cycle FP&A functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.
• Experience with business partnerships, strategy development, and leadership presentations.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in data center infrastructure design finance modeling within a fast-paced technology company.
• Experience translating complex engineering concepts into disciplined financial projections.
• 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.

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 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: $141000 - $205000 (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 Net Present Value (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.