Financial Analyst, Ads Marketing

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

• Perform analysis of datasets to extract relevant information, identify trends, and generate actionable insights for the business.
  
• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize risks followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability or impact of adverse events or to maximize the realization of opportunities.
  
• Manage projects involving multiple stakeholders, timelines, organizational implications, and changing circumstances.
  

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 2 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 SQL, database and automation techniques (building custom dashboards, automating custom reports, materializing tables).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience as a strategic consultant or in finance, managing marketing strategy and investment decisions through business performance assessments.
• Proficiency in SQL and data analytics to measure marketing incrementality, define KPIs, and expand measurement coverage.
• Ability to package complex insights into actionable recommendations for senior leadership.
• Strong track record in budget oversight, managing financial risks, and upgrading financial tools or systems to improve spend visibility and compliance.