Google

Financial Analyst II, Strategy and Operations

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 experience in FP&A, consulting, or a related field.
  • Proven experience in full-cycle FP&A functions in a multinational company.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze datasets to extract insights and identify trends.
  • Manage projects with multiple stakeholders and changing timelines.
  • Drive key FP&A processes including budgeting and forecasting for the Global Business Organization.
  • Coordinate with finance teams to provide impactful analysis to stakeholders.
  • Partner with business cost centers focusing on budget management.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness programs.
  • Generous retirement savings plan.
  • Opportunities for professional development.
  • Flexible work environment with remote options.
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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 with building data infrastructure (e.g., designing architecture, building data pipelines, implementing scalable monitoring) and implementing reporting solutions.
  • Experience in developing strategies in 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.


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.

The Strategy and Operations team is the central team for Finance which partners with two of the largest business organizations at Alphabet: Global Business Organization (GBO) (our sales organization) and Knowledge and Information (K&I) (including Ads, Search, Assistant, Commerce and Geo product areas).
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
  • Perform analysis of datasets to extract relevant information, identify trends, and generate actionable insights for the business.
  • Manage projects involving multiple stakeholders, timelines, organizational implications, and changing circumstances.
  • Drive core central Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) processes for Global Business Organization including planning, forecasting, budget management, cost allocation, and management reporting.
  • Work with cross-functional finance teams and coordinate efforts to deliver impactful analysis and insights to executive stakeholders.
  • Act as a partner to central business cost centers, with a focus on budget management and reporting.


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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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