Financial Analyst 2 - Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis, Compute Business

• Full Profit and Loss (P&L) ownership of Google Cloud VMWare Engine and Licenses ($XB) product portfolios: influence product strategy through monthly and quarterly gross margin reviews, and provide in-depth analysis that optimize financial performance.
• Partner with Product Management and finance teams to drive critical business decisions, including product roadmap prioritization, internal/external pricing, and optimizing discounts for key customers.
• Support GTM Initiatives and New Product Introductions (NPI) with unit economics analyses and P&L Impact, via cross-functional (xFN) collaboration with Product Management, Business Planning, and Engineering teams that ensure successful and financially sound market entries strategies.
• Partner with Capacity, Product, and Technical Infrastructure  (TI) Finance teams to strategically align Capex and Opex investments with demand and contribute to efficient resource allocations.

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 fast-paced environments, with impeccable business judgment for resource allocation decisions to achieve the desired business outcome.
  
• Experience leveraging AI tools to build dashboards or other tools.
• 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, and ability to work with a wide variety of departments.

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.

Cloud is a strategic priority for Google. We develop groundbreaking cloud solutions, including Google Cloud Platform and Google Workspace, to enable our clients’ digital transformation.

Our Finance team ensures that Cloud Product, Capacity and Technical Infrastructure (TI) organizations make sound financial decisions for investments in the Cloud business. We are an important partner and advisor to the Cloud leaders, providing them financial, investigative and strategic insight.

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.In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA.

• 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.