Financial Analyst, Google Cloud JAPAC

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.

Google Cloud helps millions of organizations empower their employees, serve their customers, and build what’s next for their businesses with innovative technology in the cloud. As a Financial Analyst for the APAC region, you will be situated in one of the world's most dynamic and high-growth cloud markets. The APAC digital economy is a major driver of global technology revenue, powered by rapid digital transformation across both public and private sectors.

In this role, you will navigate a competitive landscape featuring global hyperscalers and emerging regional players. You will act as a trusted finance partner to the APAC leadership team, helping them balance growth targets with financial discipline. Your work will directly impact how we scale in assigned APAC markets, supporting infrastructure expansion and the unique needs of the region.

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

• Act as a trusted finance partner for the APAC Sales and Customer Engineering leadership teams. Provide independent points of view on business performance, helping leaders translate data into actionable insights.
• Support the consumption-based revenue forecasting process for the assigned APAC markets. Analyze drivers of performance across customer segments and product categories to improve regional forecast accuracy.
• Structure and model commercial deals. Ensure deal economics align with regional profitability targets while addressing competitive pricing pressures.
• Support the management of regional OpEx and investment allocations. Evaluate concession requests, ensuring that resource deployment maximizes ROI and long-term customer value.
• Drive process improvements in regional reporting and the Rhythm of Business (ROB) to scale financial support across diverse APAC markets.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Economics, Statistics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 4 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), management consulting, corporate strategy, or a related business finance function.
  
• Experience with financial modeling.

Preferred qualifications:

• 6 years of relevant experience in a finance role within the technology, SaaS, or Cloud industry.
• Deep understanding of Cloud industry metrics such as topline revenue, bookings, backlog, and consumption-based revenue recognition.
• Familiarity with APAC market dynamics and proficiency in a regional language to better partner with local stakeholders and customers.
• Ability to self-direct work in an unstructured, fast-paced environment and demonstrate comfort with ambiguity.
• Advanced analytical skills, including proficiency in SQL for extracting and manipulating large datasets.
• Ability to communicate in English and Mandarin Chinese fluently to engage with Chinese or English speaking clients.