Strategic Financial Analyst

• Analyze business drivers and manage processes that impact the entire Platform and Devices (P&D) business.
• Provide reporting on investment performance, forecast accuracy.
• Provide leadership visibility to risks across P&D by gathering business insights, evaluating inputs, and hedging options from the total product area perspective.
• Manage reporting processes across P&D by connecting with stakeholders in product FP&A, corporate FP&A, and Accounting.
• Support regular reporting on business performance by defining and tracking business Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).

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 a relevant advanced degree

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with data analytics, financial modeling, SQL, and ensuring data cleanliness/accuracy.
• Ability to work comfortably in ambiguous situations and help team members while promoting positive morale.
• Ability to maintain successful business partnerships.
• Excellent attention to detail with a strong bias toward process improvement.

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. 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.

• 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 a relevant advanced degree