Finance Manager, Cloud Capacity Finance

• 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

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 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 in spend management, budget planning cycles, and P&L management.
• Experience presenting to senior management.
• Knowledge of the Cloud Infrastructure, specifically self-built and third-party data center.
• Ability to self-direct in an unstructured, fast-paced environment and remain comfortable with ambiguity.
• Exceptional quantitative, written, and presentation skills.

About the job

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is changing the way the world accesses compute power. As global compute capacity rapidly shifts to the public cloud, GCP delivers virtualized compute, big data/analytics, and machine learning tools to its customers at an unparalleled scale and speed, exposing Google’s infrastructure to external customers. GCP is one of the fastest growing product areas at Google.

The Capacity and Power Finance team is working in a highly dynamic, evolving environment supporting capacity and power planning decisions, both ML and classic. Within Cloud Expansion Finance, we oversee new product launches, data center launch planning, and long range planning for existing infrastructure (including Google sites, third-party sites, and networking infrastructure), and more.

We are an integral partner and strategic advisor to the Cloud leadership team, advising on how to invest resources to grow a strong and sustainable business. This role has the opportunity to drive influence on large budget decisions and long-term cloud strategy.

Responsibilities

• Partner with TI (Infrastructure) Finance, Demand and Supply Planning, Supply Strategy and Portfolio Planning, and Cloud Expansion Product to provide Go vs No-Go recommendations to data center lease structuring, expansions and procurement. Work with supply and capacity planning to understand our location specific supply vs demand matching (SDM), design scenarios, and provide an appropriate deployment recommendation.
• Develop metrics on power and data center efficiency.
• Establish mechanisms around data center expansion approvals and strategy.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders in GTM, Capacity Planning, ML teams, Supply Planning, Operations Data Science, and Technical Infra finance to develop a long-term power plan and strategy, including sources of power supply and managing power supply vs. demand at a metro-level.
• Perfrom executive communication and present results and recommendations to senior stakeholders across Cloud Finance, TI Finance, Capacity Planning, and Product.