Product Finance Analyst, Google Customer Services

Google • Mountain View, CA

18d

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.

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, a related function, or an advanced degree.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in an analytical environment including, but not limited to business analytics, management consulting, product and operational analytics.
• Excellent business judgment, leadership skills, and the ability to communicate with clarity and engage with a senior management team.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to put structure to ambiguous problems and drive insights.
• Advanced analytical and technical skills (e.g., financial modeling, SQL, Python, R, etc.) working with large volumes of complex data.

Responsibilities

• Provide executives with clear insights into drivers of business growth, risks, and opportunities.
• Lead data driven decision making on investment strategies for products, identification of key market drivers for business generation and business profitability, and resource allocation.
• Analyze financial results and key performance metrics on a periodic basis to support decision making.
• Build and maintain necessary data infrastructure to support analysis and financial models.
• Engage cross-functional and product finance teams to drive scalable analyses, tools and insights.

What This Job Offers

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