Financial Analyst II, Strategy and Operations

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 changing engaged environments, impeccable business judgment for resource allocation decisions to achieve the desired business outcome.
• 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 with the ability to work with a wide variety of departments.

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.
With your analytics and financial acuity, you'll liaise between the Finance team with the functional areas it supports. You resolve issues related to forecasting, planning, resource prioritization and business profitability, and you help translate analyses into easy-to-understand presentations.

The Strategy and Operations team is the central team for Finance which partners with two of the largest business organizations at Alphabet: Global Business Organization (GBO) (our sales organization) and Knowledge and Information (K&I) (including Ads, Search, Assistant, Commerce and Geo product areas).

Responsibilities

• Perform analysis of datasets to extract relevant information, identify trends, and generate actionable insights for the business.
• Manage projects involving multiple stakeholders, timelines, organizational implications, and changing circumstances.
• Drive core central Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) processes for Global Business Organization including planning, forecasting, budget management, cost allocation, and management reporting.
• Work with cross-functional finance teams and coordinate efforts to deliver impactful analysis and insights to executive stakeholders.
• Act as a partner to central business cost centers, with a focus on budget management and reporting.