Financial Analyst, YouTube Creator Ecosystem and Monetization
San Bruno, CA
Minimum qualifications:
- 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, 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 in management consulting, investment banking, finance, corporate strategy or similar environment.
- Proficiency with SQL or similar database querying languages and database schema.
- Ability to take initiative in an unstructured environment; comfortable with ambiguity and manage multiple projects.
- Excellent investigative and spreadsheet software modeling skills.
- Excellent problem-solving and analysis skills, combined with business judgment, leadership skills and ability to communicate with executives and senior management teams.
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. While working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to solve big picture challenges.
In this role, you will create financial models and drive strategic analyses to investigate business questions impacting the YouTube Creator Ecosystem. You will lead projects, provide analytical support, and develop a Finance point of view (POV) for several creator-centric initiatives, including brand sponsorships and paid creator promotion. You will help build an understanding of cause and effect between product updates or strategic investments and creator earnings across various surfaces and products, using these insights to inform decision making and financial long-term and annual planning.
As a key contributor in a high-energy environment, you will analyze financial data to generate data-driven solutions and communicate insights to leadership. You are experienced in complex financial modeling and can identify business issues while partnering effectively with cross-functional teams, including product activation/GTM and product.
You will be organized, entrepreneurial, and take initiative capable of making recommendations based on ambiguous or incomplete data.
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
- Analyze and model the financial impact of various strategic funding initiations, distribution deals, and incentive programs, developing data-driven Finance POVs on how to maximize long-term value for YouTube.
- Own discretionary tracking and management for relevant programs, and partner with the CAC team to incorporate new information into the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and Long Range Plan (LRP).
- Work cross-functionally to support decision-making for new spend initiatives and business trade-offs, developing and representing a Finance POV to help drive the organization toward the right long-term outcomes and ensuring that financial considerations are taken into account where appropriate across product launches and GTM efforts impacting creator monetization.
- Use structured thinking, complex modeling, and investigative insights to influence the core economics of emerging initiatives.
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.