Finance Manager, Data Center Acquisitions

Google • Kirkland, WA

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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. While working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to solve big picture challenges. This leadership role is part of the Data Cente Acquisitions, Energy and Sustainability function and provides financial and investigative insights and business planning support to the Energy and Location strategy team (ELS) team at Google . In this role, you will be leading a multi-billion scale to dissect complex problems, deliver insights and help leaders throughout the business make critical strategic and resource allocation decisions and strike the right balance with risk management and controls. 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.
• 10 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function, or 8 years with an advanced degree.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with large datasets and coding languages, database, automation or business intelligence skills such as SQL, Python, R, JavaScript, Python, Tableu and Looker.
• Ability to take initiative and direct work in an unstructured environment, and be comfortable dealing with ambiguity.
• Ability to stay organized, detail oriented, focused and multi-task in a fast-paced, ever changing environment.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to craft and deliver messages to influence executive leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own, manage, and analyze Google's Acquisition portfolio,and work with business in optimizing data center and energy agreements.
• Support the business in agreement support and work closely with accounting and treasury in optimizing for cost.
• Develop and maintain accurate forecasts and Month End Close for energy costs/generation, and collaborate with Finance/Accounting to provide essential financial information for robust reporting.
• Build scalable tools and processes (including those for agreement performance) to enhance investigative efficiency and support data initiatives for portfolio performance scaling.
• Collaborate internally to support reporting on renewable energy purchases, consumption, and progress toward goals, and assist the team in managing renewable energy agreements and utility agreements.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees