Financial Analyst, Technical Infrastructure
Sunnyvale, CA
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP and A), consulting, or a related function, or an advanced degree.
- Experience with executing full-cycle FP and A functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with managing FP and A for data center function.
- Excellent work ethic and integrity.
- Experience with partnership and collaboration across stakeholders.
- Experience with SQL, with excellent financial modeling skills.
- Ability to work with ambiguity in an unstructured environment.
- Excellent leadership and teamwork skills.
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. Technical Infrastructure (TI) is integrating hardware and software that power Google customer products and services and our internal operations. The Google Data Center team builds and operates private data center fleets in the world, and Google powers that fleet with renewable energy. In this role, you will be working on planning, process and risk management, control, opportunity identification and analytics. You will have an experience of operating as a leader and collaborating with businesses.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
- Collaborate with business partners to optimize planning, forecasting, and management of the data center operating teams.
- Use investigative and modeling skills to help drive investment decisions, reduce risks, make resource trade-offs while keeping agility for the business.
- Partner with Finance, Accounting, and Business/Product teams to ensure a holistic approach for decision making, regulatory compliance, accurate analytics and reporting, and data collection.
- Work with management across Finance and the business to drive key financial metrics and improve financial insight and practices.
- Partner with business leaders to ensure optimal management, Return On Investment (ROI) metrics, and resource allocation.
About the Company
Build for everyone
Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.
It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.
So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.
Benefits
We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.
Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.
How we Hire
Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.