Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, or Operations, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience in management consulting, or an operations-related function; or 5 years of experience with an advanced degree in business, accounting, or finance.
Preferred qualifications:
- MBA.
- Experience in global operations management, overseeing teams.
- Experience working in a cross-functional environment, driving projects with execution responsibility.
- Experience applying statistical methods, SQL, dashboard design, and communicating recommendations, with excellent data analysis skills.
- Excellent presentation skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders on project trade-offs.
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 team manages corporate card programs and expenses globally for Google and Other Bets, and is responsible for travel and other operating expenses annually. The team also works to ensure Googlers are empowered with information and can make informed decisions, while we safeguard compliance through appropriate controls. The team takes on new leadership opportunities every day and has the autonomy to identify and execute projects that will benefit Google.
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
- Manage vendors and processes, ensuring that operations goals are met and identifying opportunities for operational savings and process simplification.
- Establish a strategy to transform current operating model in line with new technologies and automation opportunities.
- Drive process design, oversee process documentation, and influence necessary policy updates.
- Design reporting and perform analyses to drive process improvement, eliminate mistakes, and provide solutions.
- Lead the global behavioral strategy including training, risk mitigation strategy for high risk audiences, operationalizing escalations and exceptions management.
