Strategic Finance Analyst

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

In this role, you will enable and empower Google's Engineering and Infrastructure leaders to steer the technology and R&D roadmap towards financially optimal outcomes via scalable processes, quantitative analysis, strong Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) governance, and the translation of complexities into actionable insights.

As a part of the ITIA Finance, you will increasingly inform the roadmap for Google's infrastructure technologies, including machine learning hardware, advanced networking, and global data centers. You will help us prioritize across Google's complex technology roadmap, lead transformational projects, and drive/develop key novel metrics.

Responsibilities

• Cultivate relationships across the Technical Infrastructure organization to understand the technical, strategic, and financial aspects of programs within the entire portfolio.
• Develop and maintain a portfolio strategy for the business to manage and prioritize its portfolio of investments.
• Evaluate portfolio resources, headcount and non-payroll opex for potential allocation/re-allocation to the highest priority programs.
• Prioritize and manage the execution of the portfolio strategy during annual planning activities and ensuring it is maintained throughout ZBB and OpEx planning.
• Build and utilize AI to enhance portfolio management processes.

Qualifications

• 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 (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.
• Experience with programming (i.e. SQL).

Benefits

• US: $116000 - $167000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits