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.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on one of Google’s most exciting product areas -- Platforms and Devices Product Area. This area includes Pixel phones, Pixel Buds, Pixel Watch, Fitbit, Nest Cameras and many more. Your responsibilities will include designing/improving critical financial infrastructure to support the business, track performance and optimize cost structures.
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.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $171,000-$248,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about
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Responsibilities
- Build complex models and provide investigative assistance on business cases related to Cogs opportunities, feature tradeoffs, operational process improvements and optimization on finance and business infrastructure.
- Establish and track cost goals, balance sheet health checks and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor Cost of Goods Sold (Cogs) and Operating Cost of Goods Sold (OCOGs) performance trends, minimize Excess and Obsolete (E&O) and optimize parts consumption trends.
- Partner with Product, Sales, Engineering, Legal, Supply Chain and Operations, and other finance teams to improve existing and implementing new initiatives to increase business efficiency and enable growth.
- Participate in discussions to guide and Influence decision making through investigative insight into profit and loss, profitability optimization and efficient use of resources.
- Manage the full operational cadence, including the Long-Range Plan, Annual Operating Plan.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 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 functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.
- Experience in financial modeling.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience working in a corporate financial planning and analysis at a fast paced/high growth technology company preferably in Hardware Finance or Operations space.
- Experience with regularly presenting to executive management.
- Experience in management, reporting and analysis on Product Costing and Other Cost of Goods using AI tools, SAP, and tableau.
- Excellent business judgment and conviction skills to communicate and influence business partners.
- Ability to be organized, strategically focused, and detail oriented to work with ambiguity in a constantly evolving environment.
- Excellent communication and people management skills with a track record of partnership and collaboration across stakeholders.
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
Mountain View, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA.
In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:
- Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
- Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
- Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
- Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
- Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
- Holidays: 13 paid days per year