Job Description

### Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, a related function, or a relevant advanced degree.



### Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in an investigative environment, including financial planning and analysis, business analytics, management consulting, or investment banking.
• Experience partnering with executive leadership and driving impact.
• Ability to put structure to ambiguous problems and drive insights.
• Excellent business acumen and leadership skills, with the ability to communicate with clarity and engage with an executive management team.
• Excellent advanced problem-solving and technical (e.g., Financial Modeling, SQL, Python, R, Data visualization) skills working with large volumes of complex data.

About the job
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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.



As someone who knows the workings of the core Finance team inside and out, you'll lead individual projects to transform planning, tracking and control processes. You'll provide senior level management with insightful recommendations, planning and reporting support.



Ads Finance is part of Google's Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) organization, providing financial support to Google's business organization. Our work is integral to the operations and strategic decision-making of the commercial teams across all our advertising products.


In this role, you will be a critical thought partner to Sales, Strategy and Operations teams and leadership within Google Customer Solutions (GCS), driving decisions around resource allocation, business growth and business management.
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.

Responsibilities
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• Lead in partnership with Finance and cross-functional partners, bringing clarity to the complex problems.
• Drive business strategy across GCS Product go-to-market. Define financial analysis objectives and needs for the area of the business, and effectively prioritize activities.
• Provide management with clear insights and recommendations to drive business enhancing sales and product actions.
• Communicate effectively by conveying a message and simplifying technical complexity behind solutions/calculations, and focusing on actionable insights.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.