Financial Analyst, YouTube
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.
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 self-start in an unstructured environment, comfortable managing with ambiguity and juggling multiple projects.
- Excellent problem-solving, modeling and analysis skills, combined with impeccable business judgment, leadership skills, and ability to communicate with a executive management team.
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.
As a part of the YouTube Finance team, you will be a part of the broader Strategy, Analytics, and Finance team (SAF) whose mission is to make YouTube commercially sustainable and more valuable by identifying and steering the business towards the biggest opportunities, guiding the organization to make the best possible decisions, and enabling effective implementation with proactive and trusted risk management.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain a unified data layer to standardize key metrics across emerging product areas (e.g. Shorts, Shopping, Generative AI) and other cross-product initiatives.
- Analyze and model the financial impact of evolving creator monetization structures.
- Partner with Finance Leads on ad hoc, high-priority projects that address fundamental business questions, such as defining the financial value of various launches across product verticals.
- Drive the agenda for ongoing support processes such as monthly spend reporting, incentive fund guardrails and annual planning for growth investments.
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.