Google

Financial Analyst II, Cloud 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 a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 4 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a similar role, or an advanced degree.
  • Proven experience in full-cycle FP&A functions such as budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling in a multinational context.
  • Project management experience or involvement in cross-functional initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the complete P&L publication process for Google Cloud products, focusing on maintenance and variance analysis.
  • Oversee the annual planning process with detailed product-level P&L carve-outs that keep pace with the dynamic cloud business.
  • Identify and provide insights on business trends to enhance stakeholder accountability and inform strategic direction through consistent P&L reporting.
  • Automate and integrate AI tools to enhance operational efficiency and reporting accuracy within the P&L workflow.
  • Manage cross-functional projects among Finance, Engineering, Product, Strategy, and Go-To-Market teams, ensuring alignment and timely execution.

Benefits

  • 15% bonus target equity benefits
  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage
  • Generous retirement savings plan
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Flexible work arrangements and support for remote work.
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 navigating fast-evolving environments, such as the scaling AI landscape.
  • Ability to deliver accurate, rapid-turnaround analysis under tight deadlines while keeping a clear view of overarching business goals.
  • Ability to build, scale, and maintain complex, P&L reporting with demonstrated skills in structuring ambiguous datasets and translating technical numbers into clear, actionable insights for product and sales leadership.
  • Exceptional business acumen and ability to identify inefficiencies, streamline data pipelines, and optimize legacy planning workflows.
  • Technical proficiency to leverage advanced analytics and latest AI productivity tools to automate modeling and reporting, eliminate manual overhead, and modernize traditional financial planning processes.


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.

This role will oversee the publication and analysis of Google Cloud Product P&Ls, empowering product leadership to make data-driven growth and profitability decisions. You will bridge the gap between business requirements and technical execution, guiding data teams to build scalable pipelines and precise cost-and-revenue allocation logic. As a key influencer, you will engage with a broad network of finance and business stakeholders across the Google Cloud organization.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

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

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Responsibilities
  • Lead the end-to-end P&L publication for Google Cloud products, overseeing the publication, maintenance, and variance analysis for actuals, annual planning, and monthly forecasting cycles.
  • Orchestrate the annual planning process, delivering precise product-level P&L carve-outs that adapt to the fast-paced evolution of the cloud business.
  • Drive a consistent, high-impact P&L reporting rhythm, proactively identifying business trends and providing granular insights to enhance stakeholder accountability and influence strategic direction.
  • Lead the automation and integration of AI tools within the P&L workstream to significantly improve operational efficiency, productivity, and reporting accuracy.
  • Manage complex, cross-functional projects across Finance, Engineering, Product, Strategy, and Operation and Go-To-Market organizations, ensuring alignment and timely delivery against demanding deadlines.


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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