Finance Analyst, UKI
Google•Published 1 days ago•First seen 1 days ago
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.
As someone who knows the workings of the core Finance team inside and out, you'll lead individual projects to transform planning, tracking and control processes. You'll provide senior level management with insightful recommendations, planning and reporting support. 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.
As someone who knows the workings of the core Finance team inside and out, you'll lead individual projects to transform planning, tracking and control processes. You'll provide senior level management with insightful recommendations, planning and reporting support. 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
- Provide thought leadership and influence decision making at UKI management group level (i.e., vice president, director, team) through problem-solving insight into key business drivers and product trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Structure and communicate and potentially testing business issues to help the leadership team set direction. Contribute as a member of the leadership team on matters beyond finance.
- Build a network across business, finance, and product leadership as well as a team of analysts across business, operations, and finance to work on a wide range of problem-solving and operational questions.
- Leverage Google’s big data to drive scalable analysis of business growth drivers and trends. Craft and present quantitative analyses to translate data into insights.
- Develop suitable business headcount and operational expenditure budgets, ensuring that investment is allocated across countries, channels, and products.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree 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 in SQL, Python and R.
- Experience in analyzing sets of data to make recommendations.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience crafting data-motivated narratives to influence leadership decision making.
- Experience in business partnering or a consulting role.
- Experience in Sheets-based analysis, building data pipelines and dashboards.
- Experience in executive communication.
- Experience with statistical analysis, driver analysis, and incrementality calculations.