Senior YouTube Financial Analyst, Americas Ads Finance

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

Job summary

Google is seeking a Financial Analyst to model business scenarios, track performance metrics, and provide insights used by leadership to guide strategic decisions across products.

You will partner with cross-functional teams, manage multiple projects, and help scale automated financial processes. Individual pay varies with factors like skills and education, with compensation including base salary, bonus target, equity and benefits.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams and sales leaders to understand drivers of business performance and provide insights into growth, risks, and opportunities.
• Lead investment strategy decisions for products, identify key market drivers for profitability and resource allocation.
• Collaborate with Finance, Operations, and BI teams to ensure strategic alignment and data consistency for scalable analyses and tools.
• Manage and assist with various ad hoc projects.

Skills

FP&A experience

SQL & Python

Leadership partnering

BI data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

Tools

SQL

Python

Tableau/Looker

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.

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

• Experience working with large datasets and coding languages, database, automation or business intelligence skills (for example: SQL, Python, R, JavaScript, Python, Tableu, Looker, etc).
• Experience partnering with senior leadership and driving impact.
• Ability to self-start and self-direct work in an unstructured environment, and comfortable dealing with ambiguity.
• Organized, detail oriented, strategically focused and ability to effortlessly multi-task in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment.

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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• Partner with cross-functional teams and sales leaders to understand drivers of business performance and provide clear insights into drivers of business growth, risks, and opportunities.
• Lead decision making on investment strategies for products, identification of key market drivers for business generation and business profitability, and resource allocation.
• Interact with other Finance, Operations, and Business Intelligence teams to assure strategic and analytical alignment, as well as data consistency and efficiency to drive scalable analyses, tools and insights.
• Manage and assist with various ad hoc projects.

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.