Ads Strategic Finance Analyst, GCS

Google • Mountain View, CA

9h

About The Position

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.

In this role, you will be a key pillar for bringing Google solutions to new SMBs around the globe. You will work in close partnership with finance colleagues, operations partners and sales leaders. You will advise the business on regional, product and customer trends. You will lead strategic analysis for the wide range of activities that acquire, delight and retain our advertisers.

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 Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in financial planning and analysis, consulting, or a related function, or an advanced degree.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with SQL to extract and manipulate data, building reporting dashboards, and programming languages such as Python.
• Excellent financial modeling skills, including understanding trends, developing insights, turning them into strategies with high impact.
• Excellent communication and partnership skills, with the ability to interact with executive leaders in sales, strategy and operations teams.
• Excellent business acumen, and the ability to collaborate effectively to help influence executive leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead central functions within the Google Customer Solutions (GCS) Acquisitions and Small and Medium Businesses (SMB) Growth team to provide executives with clear insights into drivers of business growth, business analytics, risks, and opportunities.
• Provide decision support for the VP Sales office day-to-day operational decisions and macro level project decisions through financial analysis, including opportunities, headroom insights, pipeline and productivity analysis.
• Engage cross-functional and finance teams to drive scalable analyses, tools and insights, including key work streams like quarterly goals and annual planning.
• Provide support for decision making on investment strategies for incentives, products, identification of key market drivers for business generation and business profitability, and resource allocation.

What This Job Offers

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