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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.
- Experience in SQL or Programming.
- Experience executing full-cycle FP&A functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and scenario modeling within a multinational company setting.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience working with datasets and coding languages, database, automation or business intelligence skills (e.g., SQL, Python, R, JavaScript, Python, Tableu, Looker, etc).
- Experience partnering with executive leadership and managing impact.
- Ability to take initiative, be independent, and comfortable with ambiguity.
- Ability to be organised, detail oriented, strategically focused and effortlessly multi-task in a fluid environment.
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.
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
- Partner with Cross-Functional teams and Sales Leaders to understand drivers of business performance and provide clear insights into drivers of business growth, risks, and opportunities.
- Lead decision making on investment strategies for products, identification of key market drivers for business generation and business profitability, and resource allocation.
- Interact with other Finance, Operations, and Business Intelligence teams to assure strategic and investigative alignment, as well as data consistency and efficiency to drive scalable analyses, tools and insights.
- Manage and assist with various ad hoc projects.
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