Senior Manager, Payments Finance

Google•Mountain View, CA

2d•$219,000 - $305,000

About The Position

The Payments Finance team provides strategic finance, planning, and analytics support across Payments Platform and Consumer Payments. The team advises senior leadership and delivers strategic insights, commercial frameworks, and capital allocation frameworks to support innovation and long-term growth across Google’s business generation ecosystem. As the finance business partner supporting Payments Platform and Consumer Payments (excluding India), the Senior Manager sets the strategic financial agenda, steers multi-year business planning, and leads an FP&A team. The role drives enterprise-level decision-making across commercial structures, Agreement Desk evaluations, metric architecture, and cross-Product Area alignments. Google’s Finance organization partners with and advises the business through strategic analysis, management reporting, and the scaling of automated financial processes.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
14 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function.
Experience managing people, scaling teams, and developing talent.
Experience leading executive-level business planning, long-range forecasting, and commercial decision frameworks.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree, MBA, or CFA.
10 years of experience in strategic finance, corporate FP&A, investment banking, management consulting, or commercial finance leadership within a global technology enterprise.
Experience advising VP-level executives and influencing cross-functional product, engineering, and business development leadership.
Experience in fintech, payment gateways, consumer digital wallets, payment infrastructure, or large-scale transaction networks.
Experience establishing agreement operations, commercial pricing strategies, and contract governance.
Ability to structure high-ambiguity business problems into clear operational roadmaps and compelling executive-ready narratives.

Responsibilities

Act as the trusted finance lead to Payments Platform and Consumer Payments leadership, delivering strategic narratives, capital allocation models, and commercial guidance to shape global product roadmaps.
Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing finance team by allocating resources across complex workstreams, driving operational excellence, and advocating career development.
Steer end-to-end business planning, annual budgeting, target-setting, and rolling forecasts across Platform and Consumer divisions, balancing ambitious growth with operational discipline.
Oversee the Payments Agreement Desk and cross-Product Area (xPA) infrastructure initiatives, establishing commercial evaluation frameworks, pricing, margin expectations, and global transaction fee oversight.
Architect the input/output metric ecosystem and leading indicators to evaluate ecosystem health, transaction economics, platform efficiency, and user business generation.