Senior Technical Financial Analyst, GBO Finance

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

Job summary

Google is seeking a Financial Analyst to join the Global Business Organization Finance team to drive sound financial decisions through modeling and performance tracking. You will support budgeting, forecasting, and leadership-ready insights across Google products and functions.

Leveraging SQL-based data, you will handle multiple projects, deliver actionable analyses, and influence strategic decisions with strong numerical reasoning and business judgment.

Qualifications

• 7 years of FP&A, consulting, or related experience.
• Experience with full-cycle FP&A: budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling.

Responsibilities

• Analyze datasets to extract insights for the Global Business Organization Finance team.
• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize risks; optimize resource allocation to maximize opportunities.
• Manage projects with multiple stakeholders and changing circumstances.

Skills

FP&A

Budgeting

Forecasting

Variance analysis

Financial modeling

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/Finance/Economics/Statistics or equivalent

Tools

SQL

Job description

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; 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.
• Experience executing full-cycle FP&A functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.
• Experience with programming (i.e. SQL).

Preferred qualifications:

• 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.
• Leadership experience with complex strategic and operational initiatives, across multiple products, functions, and geographies.
• 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.

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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• Perform analysis of datasets to extract relevant information, identify trends, and generate actionable insights for the Global Business Organization (GBO) Finance team.
• 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.
• Manage projects involving multiple stakeholders, timelines, organizational implications, and changing circumstances.

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 .