Financial Analyst, Technical Infrastructure

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.

Technical Infrastructure (TI) is integrating hardware and software that power Google customer products and services and our internal operations.

The Google Data Center team builds and operates private data center fleets in the world, and Google powers that fleet with renewable energy.

In this role, you will be working on planning, process and risk management, control, opportunity identification and analytics. You will have an experience of operating as a leader and collaborating with businesses.

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.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business partners to optimize planning, forecasting, and management of the data center operating teams.
• Use investigative and modeling skills to help drive investment decisions, reduce risks, make resource trade-offs while keeping agility for the business.
• Partner with Finance, Accounting, and Business/Product teams to ensure a holistic approach for decision making, regulatory compliance, accurate analytics and reporting, and data collection.
• Work with management across Finance and the business to drive key financial metrics and improve financial insight and practices.
• Partner with business leaders to ensure optimal management, Return On Investment (ROI) metrics, and resource allocation.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP and A), consulting, or a related function, or an advanced degree.
• Experience with executing full-cycle FP and A functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with managing FP and A for data center function.
• Excellent work ethic and integrity.
• Experience with partnership and collaboration across stakeholders.
• Experience with SQL, with excellent financial modeling skills.
• Ability to work with ambiguity in an unstructured environment.
• Excellent leadership and teamwork skills.