Senior Financial Analyst, Google Cloud Consulting

About the role

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

• Create monthly P&Ls for global services businesses and coordinate with regional finance leaders to facilitate accurate financial reporting and performance commentary. Lead comprehensive financial analysis while developing and maintaining spend forecasts.
• Provide recommendations to improve efficiency & scale based on robust financial analysis and critical thinking. Communicate findings to central finance teams.
• Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual financial planning cycles from a global perspective while driving collaboration with regional cross-functional teams. Prepare executive-level reports, conduct variance analysis.
• Support revenue processes to maintain accurate reporting data integrity in alignment with accounting requirements.
• Direct strategy and program management for finance process and tool enhancements, utilizing AI and automated synthesis to transition from descriptive reporting to predictive insights.

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 FP&A functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience working with a professional services business (preferably in the technology industry).
• Strong analytical and modeling skills, and experience generating insights/themes working with large and complex datasets and building models and dashboards (data visualization).
• Familiarity with the SaaS/Cloud industry and knowledge of services/consulting, partner ecosystem, key metrics (bookings, backlog, revenue), P&L management, revenue recognition rules, and deals structures.
• Ability to self-direct in an unstructured, fast-paced environment, and comfortable with ambiguity.
• Effective communicator and ability to communicate complex topics with cross-functional teams, influence stakeholders and form strong working relationships across business and technical functions.

Pay

US: $141000 - $206000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Schedule

Not specified

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