Google Looking for Finance Analyst, Cloud Product Finance at Austin, TX Full Time

• 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.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with SQL and/or other database, automation, or business intelligence skills (e.g., Python, R).
• Ability to build analyses from scratch, make well-reasoned assumptions, work with large volumes of data, and triangulate across numerous data sources.
• Ability to succeed through ambiguity and work on broadly-scoped projects.
• Excellent financial modeling, strategy, and problem-solving skills, combined with impeccable business judgment.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to work with senior executives.

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 Google Cloud Product Finance team leads the financial management for Product, Engineering, and Operations teams that build and promote Google Cloud products. We are a thought partner and trusted strategic adviser to the Google Cloud leadership team, advising on optimizing business economics while scaling hypergrowth businesses.

In this role, you will be part of the team supporting the Infrastructure and Solutions Group (ISG) dedicated to the Cloud Networking business. You will be responsible for driving key elements of our Financial Planning and Analytics processes, including budgeting, forecasting, planning, and reporting. You will partner with Product Management, Engineering, and Operations teams to support scaling and optimizing this critical and foundational business within Google Cloud. You will build financial models to support unit cost analysis, deal modeling, efficiency planning, and goal setting.

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 $105,000-$154,000. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. 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.

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Responsibilities

• Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to evaluate long-term financial plans, investment strategies, and new technology and product launches.
• Contribute to financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and allocation processes. Automate and scale financial processes.
• Drive actionable analyses and recommendations for investment prioritization, resource optimization, and efficiency improvements.
• Develop a wide variety of reporting, analytic tools, and key performance indicators (KPIs), and construct a deep understanding of how to optimize infrastructure cost, guide business decisions, and inform on performance of programs and deals.
• Work with large, complex data sets. Solve difficult, non-routine analysis problems, applying advanced analytics methods as needed to develop easy to understand financial models with multiple scenarios for evaluating business agreements and decisions.

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