Finance Analyst

Google•New York, NY

11d•$141,000 - $206,000

About The Position

The Media Incentives team ensures that Google makes sound financial decisions for Media Incentives programs. As a Financial Analyst, you will analyze modeling investment scenarios and track performance metrics used by business leaders to make strategic decisions. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
7 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function, or an advanced degree.
Experience executing full-cycle FP&A functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.
Experience with programming (i.e. SQL).

Nice To Haves

Experience writing SQL queries and retrieving data from relational databases.
Ability to self-start and self-directed work in an unstructured environment; comfortable dealing with ambiguity and a fast-paced environment
Ability to plan and manage at both the strategic and operational level.
Ability to create and foster strong cross-functional networks and manage without authority; excellent leadership, influencing and communication skills.
Excellent problem-solving and analysis skills, combined with impeccable business judgment and the ability to communicate and partner with a executive management team.
Excellent spreadsheet skills with experience creating financial dashboards or models.

Responsibilities

Provide thoughtful leadership, drive insights and analysis to support the Media Incentives team in managing the financial performance of volume-based incentives programs targeting video growth.
Leverage technical expertise to provide quantitative analysis around incentives programs, including support for return on investment and incrementality studies, working in partnership with other teams.
Interact with other Finance, Product, and partner teams to assure strategic and analytical alignment, as well as data consistency and efficiency.
Support regional Finance teams across the globe in crafting incentive portfolios aligned to their business goals.
Support product financial planning and analysis (FP&A) process by forecasting profit and loss (P&L) impact of incentive programs on an ongoing basis.