Senior Financial Analyst, Data Cloud Product Finance

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 141,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Google is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to lead FP&A for the BigQuery family within Google Cloud. You will own planning, forecasting, and financial modeling, guiding executives with insights from cross-functional partnerships across Product, Engineering, and GTM teams.

You’ll drive monthly updates, pricing analyses, and strategic financial management to help scale a data analytics ecosystem for enterprise customers. This role offers a competitive package and equity opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of FP&A experience.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling in a multinational company setting.
• MBA or Master’s degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the end-to-end finance lead for BigQuery suite products, guiding VPs and Directors on financial and strategic decisions.
• Lead long-range planning (LRP) and annual planning (AOP) processes, covering revenue, infrastructure costs, and efficiency metrics.
• Foster close partnerships with Strategy and Operations, Engineering, Product, and GTM teams to align financial goals with operational execution.
• Deliver comprehensive monthly financial updates, including forecasting, variance analysis, and deep dives into key financial drivers.
• Play a key role in Business Planning Reviews (BPR), providing thorough pricing and financial analysis for new launches with Product Managers.

Skills

FP&A experience

Budgeting

Forecasting

Variance analysis

Financial modeling

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

MBA or Master’s degree

Tools

SQL

BI platforms

Advanced spreadsheet modeling

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

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA or Master's degree in a quantitative or business field.
• Experience in the technology industry, in Cloud Computing, PaaS, or Data Analytics.
• Experience with investigative toolsets and databases (e.g., SQL, business intelligence platforms, advanced spreadsheet modeling).
• Understanding of infrastructure costs (Infra Cost), efficiency metrics, and Pricing/BPR processes and unit cost model.
• Ability to work with ambiguity in a constantly evolving environment and deliver results while building long-term relationships across organizational boundaries.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with a track record of influencing executive leadership (VPs, Directors).

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. Working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to take on big picture challenges.

As someone who knows the workings of the core Finance team inside and out, you'll lead individual projects to transform planning, tracking and control processes. You'll provide senior level management with insightful recommendations, planning and reporting support.

We are Data Cloud product finance team supporting Google Cloud Platform’s ecosystem of data management and analytics solutions. Our focus centers on managing the financial strategy for enterprise data technologies—such as scaling multi-model capabilities and winning Database and Data Analytics workload—empowering enterprise customers across verticals to achieve profound organizational transformation through innovation.

Our team supports the Product, Engineering, and Operations teams that build and promote Google Cloud’s Data Cloud products. We manage the product profit and losses (P&Ls), including business, infrastructure expenses, payroll, and other operating expenses.

We are an integral partner and strategic financial advisers to the Cloud leadership team, advising on how to invest resources, accelerate commercial database migrations, and grow a sustainable business.

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

• Serve as the end-to-end finance lead and trusted advisor for BigQuery suite products, guiding VPs and Directors on financial and strategic decisions.
• Lead long-range planning (LRP) and annual planning (AOP) processes, covering revenue, infrastructure costs, and efficiency metrics.
• Foster close partnerships with Strategy and Operations, Engineering, Product, and GTM teams to align financial goals with operational execution.
• Deliver comprehensive monthly financial updates, including continuous forecasting, variance analysis, and deep dives into key financial drivers.
• Play a key role in Business Planning Reviews (BPR), providing thorough pricing and financial analysis for new launches in close collaboration with Product Managers and the Business Planning team.

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 .