Strategic Finance Analyst, YouTube TV
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.
- 4 years of experience working with financial concepts, agreement evaluation, and data systems.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in Financial Planning and Analysis, including in-year and long-range forecasting, reporting on forecast vs. actual variance, quarterly reporting to support the Earnings process, etc.
- Experience in management consulting or other similar environments that require the preparation and communication of complex insights to executive audiences via slides and written documents.
- Experience in agreement modeling, preferably for TV rights but at minimum other MediaCo related opportunities (e.g., non-Sports original content).
- Ability to take initiative, work in an unstructured environment, and navigate ambiguity.
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 be planning of the YouTube TV business and securing more favorable agreement outcomes with YouTube TV’s media company partners. You will be driving consistency and improvements in profit and loss modeling and forecasting, partnering closely with the broader finance team on monthly forecast/close cycles, and annual and long term business modeling. You will also develop a deep understanding of the TV landscape and subscriptions through work on a variety of ad hoc agreement modeling and analysis. You will be a top performer with excellent communication and data analysis skills and a key contributor in a growth environment. You will perform deep dives into the underlying assumptions and quantitative details of all analyses, and be able to synthesize complex analyses and insights into compelling, executive-ready narratives. You will be expecting and welcoming a role that changes often as the TV landscape evolves, and be ready for a fast-paced environment – especially during a YouTube TV content agreement cycle.
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
- Support monthly, annual, and long-term forecasting, budgeting and planning, variance/reconciliation process for YouTube TV, synthesizing financial performance and ensuring YouTube TV insights are properly discussed and reflected in various FP&A materials.
- Continue to build out and improve YouTube TV financial models, leveraging new data points as they become available to constantly improve model operation.
- Partner with key stakeholders within Product, Content, and Marketing to YouTube TV through new launches with the tools and business insights that explain the drivers of business and profit performance.
- Complete ad hoc analyses and present insights to execute YouTube and Google stakeholders; including data-driven recommendations to guide strategic decision making.
- Support the evaluation of key content acquisition and product partnership deals to ensure they are evaluated accurately and in a timely manner with an eye towards achieving accretive economics.
About the Company
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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.
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How we Hire
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