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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience in financial planning and analysis, consulting, or a related function, or 8 years with a relevant advanced degree.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree in a business, finance, technical, or engineering field.
- Understanding of finance functions, including operations, accounting, processes, risks, and controls.
- Ability to take initiative, work in an unstructured environment, and comfortable dealing with ambiguity.
- Excellent financial planning and analysis skills, including budgeting, forecasting, analysis, scenario planning, and modeling.
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. Excellent at working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to address big picture challenges.
You are both a manager and a mentor, providing financial leadership and analytical support to partners of the core Finance team as well as giving your own team the support they need to become financial experts. You’ll keep management informed on key financial metrics and work to improve financial operation practices throughout your region.
As a Finance Manager, your work, whether it’s modeling business scenarios or tracking performance metrics, is used by our leaders to make strategic company decisions. You will work on multiple projects at a time, focusing on the details while finding creative ways to solve big picture challenges. You’ll lead individual projects to transform planning, tracking, and control processes. You’ll provide strong leadership with insightful recommendations, planning, and reporting support.
In this role, you will be a critical member of the Real Estate and Workplace Services (REWS)/Global Security and Resilience Services (GSRS) Finance team, providing financial and analytical insights, and business planning partnership to Google Finance leaders. You will partner with leaders on financial decisions and implications of business strategies, investments, trade-offs, efficiency, and scale initiatives, including process and systems transformation.
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
- Be responsible for the REWS Workplace Experience team, overseeing all finance activities for Google’s amenities organization, encompassing both Operating and Capital Investments.
- Lead all Workplace Experience processes including: annual and long-range planning, close and forecasting cycles, and vendor partner oversight.
- Build cost models for new and existing initiatives including, but not limited to, sustainability investments, agreement negotiations, and the future of work, and provide a distinctive finance perspective.
- Inform stakeholders on key financial metrics. Design/build/refine the necessary financial infrastructure to manage day-to-day operations, articulate risks to the business and Finance management teams, and propose solutions and secure leadership buy-in to resolve process, systems, and people gaps.
- Manage and mentor a team of Financial Analysts, fostering a growth mindset, providing the appropriate level of oversight, and mentoring involvement in agenda setting.
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.
