Associate, Energy Commercial Structuring Analytics

Google • San Francisco, CA

18d

About The Position

As Google's products and services grow to serve our billions of users, the
Strategic Negotiation team works behind the scenes to secure infrastructure for
Google's future. It's a big job that involves everything from operating
underwater cables to finding data center space. In this role you combine your
deep market knowledge with tech industry savvy to find solutions that support
Google's growth. You'll work with specific teams to oversee vendor and partner
relationships. Your successful management skills have the potential to impact
every part of the business and save Google millions of dollars in operating
costs. You'll ensure that we receive contract compliance on our third-party
agreements, while identifying the most cost-effective solutions for our needs.
You'll take lead on special projects, manage vendors and present your
recommendations to Google leadership.

As a key driver of Google’s Americas Data Center Energy team, you will power the
financial engine behind our global infrastructure strategy. You’ll work on the
negotiations and execution of complex energy agreements from retail and
wholesale to innovative Power, Performance, and Area (PPA) structures, across
both regulated and deregulated markets.

Leveraging your expertise in energy infrastructure and financial analysis,
you’ll translate market trends into financial models and strategic benchmarks
that guide our path forward. You will navigate agreement negotiations and build
seamless alignment across accounting and finance teams. You will build strong
partnerships and prepare compelling business cases for executive approval.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the
Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and
maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google
platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our
engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we
can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have
the best and fastest experience possible.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience with agreement negotiations and drafting in the infrastructure field, with the focus on power generation or power infrastructure.
• 5 years of experience in energy or infrastructure project financial structuring and analysis.
• 5 years of experience in financial modeling for energy transactions (e.g., utility supply, PPAs, etc.).

Nice To Haves

• Experience managing utility agreements and energy-related issues.
• Experience in financial modeling and implementing clean energy initiatives.
• Ability to comfortably work in ambiguous, collaborative, and fast-moving environments.

Responsibilities

• Support the commercial structuring analytics program, helping to build energy strategy, structure and evaluate energy deals in support of the Americas data center portfolio.
• Assist in the evaluation of transactions across partnerships, portfolio frameworks, utility energy supply, IPP energy supply, PPAs, and other types of energy agreements.
• Prepare and present agreement approval materials and work with cross-functional partners in Accounting, Finance, etc., to align on a common set of agreement analytics and metrics.
• Develop a standard set of modeling tools and focus on automation over repetitive, manual work to assist in maintaining up-to-date benchmarks for industry standard financial metrics, project capex/opex benchmarks, etc.

What This Job Offers

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