Google

Financial Analyst, Core Financial Planning and Analysis

Google$116K — $166K *
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 of FP&A, consulting, or related experience.
  • Experience with full-cycle FP&A functions in a multinational company.
  • Proficiency in SQL or similar data analytics tools for dashboard creation.
  • Ability to build cross-functional partnerships and drive operational excellence.
  • Capacity to influence stakeholders in a matrixed organization.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with finance and business units to ensure data integrity and identify risks and opportunities.
  • Build and maintain complex forecasting and budgeting models to inform strategy.
  • Manage profit and loss and spend for AI Systems and AI Foundations.
  • Deliver reports with actionable insights and perform value creation analyses.
  • Streamline financial workflows using emerging technologies and AI.

Benefits

  • Access to comprehensive health coverage.
  • Opportunities for equity and bonuses.
  • Robust retirement plans with company matching.
  • Generous paid time off and wellness programs.
  • Professional development and continuous learning support.
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.
  • Experience executing full-cycle FP&A functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Proficiency in SQL or comparable data analytics tools for data extraction, manipulation, and presentation via dashboards
  • Demonstrated success in building cross-functional partnerships, thriving in dynamic environments, and driving operational excellence.
  • Capacity to influence stakeholders at all levels within a matrixed organization.
  • Aptitude for leveraging investigative skills to develop compelling business cases.


About the job

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) serves as a business steward and trusted advisor. In this role, you will self-initiate, be detail-oriented, passionate about problem-solving, and creative in addressing challenges.

You will join Google's Core Finance team. Core builds the technical foundation behind Google's flagship products, fulfilling a mission to make Google work better for everyone at scale. Core architects the AI-native systems, platforms, and experiences powering company products globally.

Core Finance acts as trusted advisors to leadership, ensuring strategic resource allocation and driving scenario planning to maximize value and optimize operations. As the foundational finance engine, FP&A operates as core business partners managing operating expenses (OpEx). We maintain operational excellence while steering financial strategy through major transitions-building budgets, refining forecasts, evaluating business cases with strong return on investment (ROI), and tracking key performance indicators.

In this role, you will support two key engineering areas: AI Systems: driving the technological transformation toward an AI-native company and accelerating Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) delivery. AI Foundations: engineering tomorrow's technical foundation to ensure systems are faster, safer, reliable, and efficient.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google's flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google's products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $116000 - $166000 (USD) 15% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Partner with Core Finance, business units, and Accounting to ensure financial data integrity, deliver strategic support, and identify business risks and opportunities.
  • Build and maintain sophisticated models for forecasting, budgeting, variance tracking, workforce planning, scenario modeling, and cost allocations to guide strategic decisions.
  • Own end-to-end profit and loss (P&L) and spend management for Core AI Systems and AI Foundations across month-end close (MEC), forecasting, annual operating plan (AOP), and long-range plan (LRP) planning cycles.
  • Deliver regular and ad-hoc reports with actionable executive insights, while conducting in-depth value creation and business generation analyses.
  • Streamline core financial workflows and improve operational efficiency by leveraging emerging technologies and AI to automate manual tasks.


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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