Senior Financial Analyst, GBO Strategic Projects

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

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus target

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Google is seeking a Financial Analyst in Mountain View to support sound financial decisions. You will model business scenarios, track performance metrics, and deliver insights to senior leadership across multiple projects.

Responsibilities include analyzing ads performance, partnering with regional finance, and delivering scalable narratives. Individual pay varies with experience. Competitive compensation and equity are offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field.
• 7 years FP&A, consulting, or related function, or 5 years with advanced degree.

Responsibilities

• Analyze performance of the global ads business and drivers of variance.
• Partner with finance teams to deliver narratives to executives in key forums.
• Build insights that can be replicated and scaled across the organization.
• Manage critical ad-hoc projects with finance and other Google teams, including incentive modeling.

Skills

Financial analysis

Data storytelling

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

MBA

Tools

SQL

Spreadsheets

Job description

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; Chicago, IL, 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 5 years with a relevant advanced degree.

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA.
• Proficiency in spreadsheets, familiarity with SQL, and investigative experience working with complex data.
• Ability to manage and deliver complex cross-functional projects.
• Ability to adapt constantly evolving environments.
• Ability to craft and deliver a message with credibility to influence senior leadership.

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 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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• Analysis into the performance of the global ads business and key drivers of variance.
• Partner with region and channel finance teams to deliver cohesive business performance narratives to executives in key forums such as Global Business Organization (GBO) Live (all GBO employees), GBO LC (all GBO directors), and other leadership moments.
• Deliver these narratives at scale by building insights that can be replicated and re-used across the organisation for maximum impact.
• Manage critical ad-hoc projects in partnership with finance, GTM and broader Google teams, including the impact of tariffs and modeling of new incentives models for sales compensation.

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