Google

Financial Analyst, Data Center Infrastructure Design

Google • $116K — $166K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or related field; or equivalent experience.
  • 4 years in financial planning and analysis, consulting, or a similar role.
  • Experience in full-cycle FP&A functions, including budgeting and forecasting in a multinational setting.

Responsibilities

  • Identify and prioritize risks to minimize impact or maximize opportunities.
  • Act as a finance partner for the data center design engineering team.
  • Develop and maintain complex financial models and conduct investment analyses.
  • Drive large programs across multiple organizations to ensure robust financial controls and process optimization.
  • Advocate for cost optimization opportunities to enhance Google's financial edge.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
  • 401(k) retirement benefits with company match.
  • 20 days of vacation plus 40 hours of sick time annually.
  • Maternity and baby bonding leave of up to 30 weeks.
  • 13 paid holidays per year.
Full Job Description
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X In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:
  • Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
  • Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
  • Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
  • Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
  • Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
  • Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
  • Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA.

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:
  • Experience in data center infrastructure design finance modeling within a fast-paced technology company.
  • Experience with building data infrastructure (e.g., designing architecture, building data pipelines, implementing scalable monitoring) and implementing reporting solutions.
  • Experience in developing strategies in fast-paced competitive 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.


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. While working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to solve big picture challenges.

Technical Infrastructure (TI) is the backbone of Google - comprising the global Data centers, networks, and integrated hardware and software that power the internal operations as well as customer-facing products like Google Cloud. Google builds and operates one of the largest, state-of-the-art private data center fleets in the world. It is a highly complex technical domain backed by vast operating and capital budgets that continue to grow year over year.

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.
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

Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities
  • Identify, evaluate, and prioritize risks followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities.
  • Act as finance partner for data center design engineering organization.
  • Architect, defend, and maintain sophisticated financial models. Conduct investment and NPV analyses on next-generation technical infrastructure to enable structured savings.
  • Drive large, matrixed programs spanning multiple organizations, ensuring robust financial controls, process optimization, and risk mitigation across the fleet.
  • Identify and advocate optimization opportunities that bend the cost curve downward, providing Google with a distinct technical and financial competitive advantage.


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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