Senior Financial Analyst, Infrastructure
Sunnyvale, CA
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience in financial planning and analysis, consulting, a related function, or an advanced degree.
Preferred qualifications:
- 5 years of experience in investment banking, venture capital, management consulting, engaged analysis, strategy, or related roles.
- Experience in research and development finance functions and processes.
- Understanding of addressing the needs of the business and finance goals.
- Ability to take charge, set objectives, drive results while building long-term relationships across organizational boundaries with all levels.
- Excellent quantitative problem-solving skills in spreadsheets, databases and investigative tool sets.
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.
Google's Engineering and Infrastructure leaders steer the technology and, research and development roadmap towards financially optimal outcomes via scalable processes, quantitative analysis, financial planning and analysis governance, and the translation of complexities into actionable insights.
As a senior financial analyst, you will prioritize across Google's complex technology roadmap, lead transformational projects, and drive/develop key novel metrics.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 $137,000-$201,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. 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.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Be the trusted financial partner to engineering and Infrastructure leaders, transforming complex technical program updates and financial progress into concise, high-impact narratives for our most executives.
- Drive accountability and clarity by relentlessly pursuing the root causes of financial and operational issues, partnering cross-functionally to quantify gaps and implement impactful solutions.
- Shape Google's future technology investments by creating multi-year financial models, including Net Present Value (NPV) and presenting the critical economic insights that guide engineering program decisions during business case reviews.
- Pioneer financial innovation leading transformational projects to develop, novel metrics for custom silicon and AI technologies, automating critical workstreams, and establishing consolidated, transparent program tracking.
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.