Google

Cloud Marketing Strategic Financial Analyst

Google$116K — $167K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field or equivalent experience.
  • 4 years in financial planning and analysis (FP&A) or a related function, or an advanced degree.
  • Experience with full-cycle FP&A tasks like budgeting and forecasting in a multinational company.
  • Strong financial modeling and spend management skills.
  • Proficient with spreadsheets, SQL, and dashboard creation tools.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with marketing analytics and finance teams to analyze marketing spend and impact.
  • Drive the Annual Planning process with cross-functional collaborators.
  • Develop quarterly financial review packages and investment evaluation materials.
  • Contribute to the marketing investment allocation framework to standardize cost allocations.
  • Build and scale automated reporting and AI-enabled solutions for the Cloud Marketing Finance team.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage for employees and dependents.
  • Generous paid time off and holiday schedule.
  • Retirement plan with company matching.
  • Employee development and learning opportunities.
  • Access to wellness programs and resources.
Full Job Description
Minimum 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 financial planning and analysis functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Experience in financial modeling, financial planning and analysis (FP&A), spend management, budget planning cycles, or related consulting functions.
  • Experience using spreadsheets, SQL, and dashboard creation tools to drive insights.
  • Understanding of the Cloud/Software industry, including its various roles and incentive structures.
  • Ability to grow and drive results in a fast-paced, unstructured environment with excellent investigative skills.
  • Excellent people management and leadership skills, with the ability to set objectives, build long-term cross-functional relationships, and present to executive management.


About the job

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 Cloud Finance team is at the epicenter of Google Cloud's physical and digital expansion. We ensure that our infrastructure investments are strategically sound, operationally efficient, and aligned with our long-term financial goals, driving profitable growth for Google Cloud.

As a key partner to the Engineering, Supply Chain, Demand Planning, Product, GTM Sales and Services organizations, we provide the financial excellence and strategic insight necessary to scale our global footprint and lead the AI revolution.
Responsibilities
  • Partner with the Cloud Marketing Data Analytics, Regional Marketing and Finance teams to plan, forecast, and analyze marketing spend and impact.
  • Help drive Annual Planning approach and process, collaborating with cross-functional business partners.
  • Develop quarterly financial review packages and other business review materials to surface financial insights and evaluate/prioritize investment decisions.
  • Contribute to the marketing investment allocation framework to drive standardization of cost allocations to enhance the robustness of Marketing Return on Investment (ROI) analyses.
  • Build and scale new investigative capabilities through automated reporting, dashboards, and AI-enabled solutions to improve efficiency of the Cloud Marketing Finance team.


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

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About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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Size
156,500 employees
Market Cap
$1,115.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
+23.3%
Revenue
$182.5 billion
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