Senior Financial Analyst, Google Cloud Consulting

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.

Cloud is a strategic priority for Google. We develop groundbreaking cloud solutions, including Google Cloud Platform and Google Workspace, to enable our clients’ digital transformation. The Google Cloud Consulting Finance team ensures that Professional Services Sales, Customer Project Delivery, Customer Success and Account Management organizations make sound financial decisions. We are an important partner and independent advisor to the Cloud Consulting Leaders, providing them financial, analytical and strategic insight.

We are responsible for full P&L management, which includes: forecasting/planning for revenue and expenses, financial reporting, cost management, top line analysis and evaluating strategic investments.

This will be a critical role in partnering with leadership to provide visibility into business performance and influencing decision-making at both the global and regional level.

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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $141000 - $206000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefits

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Minimum qualifications:

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

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working with a professional services business (preferably in the technology industry).
• Strong analytical and modeling skills, and experience generating insights/themes working with large and complex datasets and building models and dashboards (data visualization).
• Familiarity with the SaaS/Cloud industry and knowledge of services/consulting, partner ecosystem, key metrics (bookings, backlog, revenue), P&L management, revenue recognition rules, and deals structures.
• Ability to self-direct in an unstructured, fast-paced environment, and comfortable with ambiguity.
• Effective communicator and ability to communicate complex topics with cross-functional teams, influence stakeholders and form strong working relationships across business and technical functions.