Senior Financial Analyst, Technical Infrastructure Finance
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Minimum qualifications:
- 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 5 years with a relevant advanced degree.
- Experience writing SQL queries and retrieving data from relational databases.
Preferred qualifications:
- Excellent leadership and people management skills, with the ability to take charge, set objectives, drive results while building long-term relationships across organizational boundaries with all levels of seniority.
- Excellent quantitative problem solving skills, with the ability to work with spreadsheets, databases, and analytical tool sets (e.g., SQL).
- Excellent attention to detail, with ability to deliver multiple projects to very high level of quality, high tolerance for ambiguity and change.
- Interest in business, finance, and technology sector.
- Exposure to Research and Development finance functions and processes.
About the job
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.
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.
Responsibilities
- Build relationships across the Technical Infrastructure organization to gather updates, understand technical programs, monitor financial progress, synthesizing and presenting the information to senior executives.
- Understand issues you uncover, collaborating with stakeholders to quantify and address gaps in accountability and understanding.
- Respond to ad-hoc requests and analytical projects from the Finance Director and Finance VP via deep insight and actionable recommendations.
- Develop multi-year financial projections and associated Net Present Value (NPV) calculations for key Engineering efficiency and new technology programs, surfacing critical nuances during business case review discussions.
- Lead, develop, and generate updates for key transformational projects across ITIA finance, sophisticated novel metrics for covered technologies, workstream automation, and consolidated tracking of program progress.
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