Cloud Central Financial Analyst, GTM Sales and Services

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 an advanced degree.
• Experience executing full-cycle FP&A functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working on cross-functional teams to solve big problems, and experience efficiently communicating key takeaways to leadership.
• Experience driving process improvement and optimization opportunities in a changing environment.
• Demonstrated continuous improvement mindset and experience implementing new processes in support of FP&A planning and reporting.
• Strong ability to multi-task and manage a multitude of stakeholders.
• Ability to self-start and self-direct work in an unstructured environment; comfortable dealing with ambiguity.

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. 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.

Cloud Central financial planning and analysis (FP&A) strives to be a Finance function delivering the most pertinent insights and financial recommendations to leadership, influencing Corporate Finance towards Cloud’s unique needs, and streamlining processes and communications across Cloud to deliver financial analyses and recommendations of the highest standards, while fostering an environment for team members to achieve their highest career potential and develop deep skills in their roles.
The Spend Management FP&A team’s mandate is to: architect for velocity by designing optimized workflows and solutions, build for fidelity and scale thorough governance and standardization, and exemplify end-to-end ownership and mastery. This mandate will help drive informed decisions that enable the execution and realization of Google Cloud's financial goals.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the subject matter expert on Google Cloud GTM spend and business economics, delivering key insights and decision support to Cloud Leadership.
• Create, automate, and improve short- and long-term forecasts for non-payroll Opex and cost of sales while identifying resource efficiencies.
• Cultivate strong partnerships across Corporate Finance, Strategy and Operations, Accounting, and Product Finance to design spend initiatives and determine accounting treatments.
• Optimize the end-to-end GTM spend process by developing metrics, KPIs, reports, dashboards, and managing central engineering spend timelines.
• Influence stakeholders across finance and operations to drive implementation goals and manage ad-hoc and operational projects.