Google

Financial Analyst, Core Central Finance

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

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 4 years of experience in FP&A or related fields, or an advanced degree.
  • Full-cycle FP&A execution experience in budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling at a multinational company.
  • Experience in project management or cross-functional initiatives.
  • Preferred experience in strategic development in dynamic environments.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee the annual planning cycle for the Core Finance team, coordinating timelines and deliverables.
  • Manage key initiatives and track OKRs, ensuring visibility into project milestones and progress.
  • Lead change management for core tooling updates, facilitating smooth adoption across the organization.
  • Collaborate with leadership to manage essential resources, including executive calendar and standardization of presentations.
  • Transform ambiguous project briefs into structured plans, offering a chance to enhance leadership skills.

Benefits

  • Flexible work hours and remote work opportunities.
  • Access to comprehensive health and wellness programs.
  • Generous parental leave and family support benefits.
  • Professional development and training programs.
  • Employee resource groups and community engagement opportunities.
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 FP&A functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.
  • Experience in project management or cross-functional initiatives.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Experience in developing strategies in a changing engaged environments, impeccable business judgment for resource allocation decisions to achieve the desired business outcome.
  • Ability to work with data to produce analysis, influencing decision making with numerical analysis and generating insights.
  • Ability to take ownership, confidence to interact with all levels, set objectives, drive results, and be a team player.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to work with a wide variety of departments.
  • Experience with executive level communications and resource 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.

With your analytics and financial acuity, you'll liaise between the Finance team with the functional areas it supports. You resolve issues related to forecasting, planning, resource prioritization and business profitability, and you help translate analyses into easy-to-understand presentations.

In this role, you will serves as the operational engine for the Core Finance team, directly owning the end-to-end execution of annual planning, key tool change management, and project tracking for leadership initiatives. You will provide a high-visibility platform to manage central executive resources while translating complex, ambiguous priorities into structured deliverables.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

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

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Responsibilities
  • Own the end-to-end orchestration of the annual planning cycle for the Core Finance team. Drive timelines, coordinate deliverables, and design clear communication strategies to keep all stakeholders aligned.
  • Act as the central program manager for critical initiatives and OKRs tracking. Maintain the central tracker for leadership, ensuring visibility into milestones, dependencies, and team progress across Core finance.
  • Serve as the go-to resource and change management lead for core-wide tooling updates, helping the organization seamlessly adopt new systems and processes.
  • Partner closely with leadership to manage critical central resources, including high-visibility calendar management standardization of executive slide templates, and management of key resource repositories to streamline team operations.
  • Take ambiguous project briefs and turn them into structured, executable plans. Offers a direct opportunity to stretch your thinking and develop the leadership skills required to scale processes.


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.
Learn more about Google
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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