Strategic Finance Analyst, GCS

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

Job summary

Google is seeking a Financial Analyst to join the GCS Americas MMS Commerce Finance team in Mountain View or New York. You will lead projects to transform planning, tracking and control processes, delivering senior-level recommendations and reporting support to drive strategic decisions.

Responsibilities include partnering with sales and cross-functional teams, delivering insights on revenue growth, and supporting resource allocation while influencing leadership with clear, actionable narratives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field.
• 7 years of FP&A, consulting, or related experience.
• Experience executing full-cycle budgeting, forecasting and modeling in a multinational setting.

Responsibilities

• Drive business strategy and accountability across GCS Americas MMS Commerce with key insights on performance drivers.
• Act as trusted advisor to US MMS Commerce VP and leaders on business performance and growth.
• Collaborate with AMER RSO and PSA to understand drivers and support sales strategy activation.
• Communicate insights clearly to senior audiences with concise narratives.

Skills

FP&A experience

Budgeting & Forecasting

Financial modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SQL

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; New York, NY, 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 financial planning and analysis functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience using SQL to extract and manipulate data, building reporting dashboards.


• Demonstrated track record of effectively partnering with technical, business and ops stakeholders.


• Skilled at working in an unstructured environment, navigating ambiguity, managing multiple assignments simultaneously and bringing clarity and structure as you go.


• Financial modeling skills, understanding trends, and developing insights.


• Strong business judgement, with the ability to motivate colleagues and collaborate effectively to influence senior leadership.


• Desire to structure and solve large, complex and novel analytical problems.

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.

The GCS Americas Ads Finance team partners with sales and cross-functional leadership to provide analytical insights and recommendations on revenue growth drivers and key business decisions for GCS Americas. We are responsible for core operations such as delivering insights on revenue performance, supporting quarterly quotas and act as a trusted advisor to the leadership team on topics such as risks and opportunities, market acceleration plans and resource allocation.

In this role, you would be the Finance MMS Commerce Analyst in the GCS AMER Programs Finance team, based in Mountain View or New York and will play an integral role in the operations and strategic decision-making of the AMER MMS commerce business. You will support and inform AMER Commerce business performance and strategic priorities and will support sales strategy operationalization from a finance perspective. You will deliver performance insights, in partnership with cross-functional partners to support AMER MMS Commerce priorities and act as trusted advisor to leadership and AMER GCS RVP on core strategic topics.

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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• Drive business strategy and accountability across GCS Americas MMS Commerce, through effective delivery of key program insights on drivers of performance.


• Act as a trusted advisor primarily to the US MMS Commerce VP and Commerce sales leaders from other markets (i.e., Canada, Brazil and SPLA) on business performance, with a focus on key growth drivers. Provide thought leadership and actionable insights on incremental revenue growth.


• Collaborate with cross functional teams, specifically AMER Revenue Strategy and Operations (AMER RSO) and AMER Product Sales Activation (PSA) for a deeper understanding of drivers of performance. Support activation of key sales strategies through regular tracking and monitoring of progress.


• Communicate insights effectively to senior audiences by simplifying technical complexity and through clear narratives focusing on the “bigger picture” and actionable insights.

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 .