Senior Financial Analyst, Google One and Photos

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 141,000 - 199,000; Full time

Job summary

Google One (G1) and Photos Finance teams seek a Senior Financial Analyst to lead financial oversight for infrastructure resource allocations and strategic optimizations. You will build models, analyze TI costs, and present findings to executives to guide investment decisions.

You will partner with engineering, product, and finance to validate cost allocations, drive multi-year planning, and identify cost-saving opportunities while communicating insights clearly to senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a quantitative field.
• 7 years of FP&A, consulting, or related function, or an advanced degree.
• Experience in Finance or FP&A with cost analysis focus is a plus.
• Experience in SQL, complex financial modeling and large dataset analysis.
• Ability to translate data into actionable recommendations and communicate to senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Perform rigorous financial analysis of Google One TI costs, including compute, storage, and network expenses.
• Develop methodologies for validating and integrating cost allocations affecting P&L.
• Contribute to multi-year, annual, and monthly planning and forecasting for TI costs.
• Partner with engineering, product, and finance to identify cost-saving initiatives and optimize spend.
• Prepare and present dashboards and executive summaries on TI costs and allocations.

Skills

7 years FP&A experience

Financial analysis

Data analysis

Education

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

Tools

SQL

Financial modeling

Data visualization

Job description

• 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.

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.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in Finance or Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), with a focus on cost analysis or infrastructure spending.


• Experience in SQL, complex financial modeling and large dataset analysis.


• Ability to dissect complex financial and operational data, identify key drivers, and translate insights into actionable recommendations.


• Ability to command data visualization tools to build insightful dashboards and reports.


• Ability to work with ambiguity in an unstructured environment and adapt to shifting business priorities.


• Excellent communication skills to partner effectively with cross-functional teams and clearly present financial information to senior stakeholders

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.

Join the Google One (G1) and Photos Finance team to play a pivotal role in one of Google’s fastest‑growing consumer ecosystems. Google One currently serves over 150 million subscribers, while Google Photos is a beloved product trusted by more than a billion users worldwide. This is an exciting opportunity to join a high‑impact team where you will lead financial oversight for infrastructure resource allocations and strategic optimizations.

As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the financial success of our Technical Infrastructure (TI) and cross‑product area allocations. We are looking for a data‑driven leader to translate complex technical data into clear, actionable insights for executives. In this role, you will build sophisticated financial models, conduct rigorous analysis, and drive the financial narrative for groundbreaking initiatives, ensuring the long‑term scalability and strategic success of our storage and AI offerings.

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

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Perform rigorous financial analysis of Google One's TI costs, conducting deep dives into compute, storage, and network expenses to identify key drivers, trends, and efficiency opportunities.


• Develop, refine, and manage methodologies for validating and integrating cost allocations from other product areas to Google One, ensuring accurate and defensible cost inflows impacting the P&L.


• Contribute to multi‑year, annual, and monthly planning and forecasting processes for Google One TI costs, developing robust financial models to predict future infrastructure spend.


• Partner with engineering, product, and finance stakeholders to identify and implement cost‑saving initiatives related to TI, providing data‑driven recommendations to optimize spend.


• Prepare and present comprehensive financial reports, dashboards, and executive summaries on TI costs and cross‑product area allocations, effectively communicating complex insights to senior leadership and fostering informed decision‑making.

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.