Accountant, Google Fixed Assets

Google • Chicago, IL

7h

About The Position

Google accountants are a savvy bunch who handle the core accounting responsibilities at Google. You know your accounting principles and the full accounting process end to end. You'll advise on financial reports required by governmental regulations, and review, analyze, and interpret financial and budgetary reports. Every day is a new challenge, and you're continually looking for ways to help our team become more efficient and effective. A team player at heart, you collaborate with our global team, advocate best practices and pitch in where needed. You move fast while keeping your attention to detail, and you tap into your problem-solving skills to support business objectives.

You'll lead an accounting process from end-to-end. Other responsibilities include reconciling balance sheets and P&L accounts, and providing supplementary financial information for internal and external reports.

As a member of the Google Fixed Assets (gFA) team, you will find ways to manage the set of transactions. In this role, you will be focused on maintaining the fixed assets, inventory or projects systems sub-ledgers, working on feature requests, bug resolution and other enhancements to improve the productivity of the team.

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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in accounting or a related function, or 1 year with an advanced degree in accounting, business, or finance.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with SQL and SAP ERP and knowledge of spreadsheet software.
• Ability to have attention to detail and focus on continuous improvement along with excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to have a collaborative style and work with cross-functional and international teams.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to communicate with management.

Responsibilities

• Perform month end close tasks, this includes management of asset creation and retirement processes, provide commentary for flux analysis on a monthly and quarterly basis, book journal entries for your related process, and partner with business for new process/product implementations.
• Prepare and present financial information to different audiences, including finance leaders, business partners, auditors and regional accountants.
• Support system implementations as a subject matter expert in fixed assets.
• Support SOX controls, run processes according to risk assessment and control frameworks and escalate when risks are detected.
• Improve gFA processes to drive quality standards in the fixed assets register, reconciliations, and reporting produced for local audits and close reporting.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level