Financial Analyst II

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 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

• Perform analysis of datasets to extract relevant information, identify trends, and generate insights for the business.
• 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.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function, or an advanced degree.
• Experience executing full-cycle Financial Planning and Analysis (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 monitoring) and implementing reporting solutions.
• Experience in developing strategies in fluid environments, along with excellent business judgment for resource allocation decisions to achieve the business outcomes.
• Ability to work with data to produce analysis, influencing decision making with numerical analysis and generating insights.
• Ability to take ownership, interact with all levels, set objectives, drive results, and be a team player.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work with a variety of departments.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Chicago, IL, USA.