Senior Finance Analyst, Capacity Planning

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. Working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to take on big picture challenges.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional finance, planning, and product teams to provide "Go/No-Go" recommendations for data center expansions and procurement.
• Manage the evolution of data center cost guardrails and analyze lease agreement structures to align with profit and loss health and workload-specific requirements.
• Collaborate with capacity planning to model scenarios for location-specific supply-demand matching and recommend deployment paths.
• Direct the 5-year power and business forecasting for new regions, integrating inputs from go-to-market (GTM), data science, and operations.
• Present financial narratives, capital expenditure/operating expenditure (CapEx/OpEx) efficiency opportunities, and roadmaps to stakeholders across cloud and technical infrastructure leadership.

Qualifications

• 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 an advanced degree.
• Experience executing full-cycle financial planning and analysis functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.
• Experience in financial modeling in a capital-intensive industry (data centers, energy, or infrastructure real estate investment trusts (REITs)).
• Experience with programming (e.g., SQL).

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Pay

US: $141,000 - $206,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits