Financial Analyst, YouTube Planning

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), corporate finance, accounting, or a related function.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience owning advanced spreadsheets and extracting insights from large datasets.
• Experience owning financial deliverables that rely on multiple stakeholders for input.
• Experience with driver-based forecasting and planning.
• Independent and ability to deal with ambiguity in a constantly evolving environment.

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. While working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to solve big picture challenges.

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.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end monthly close process for the YouTube's Ads and Subscriptions businesses, delivering accurate and timely reporting that provides a clear view of financial performance.
• Lead the consolidation and analysis of the monthly forecast for YouTube's gross margin, identifying trends, risks, and opportunities to ensure leadership has the most up-to-date financial outlook.
• Own the consolidated forecasts and annual plan submissions to SAP, including validation and reconciliation of numbers as needed.
• Provide continuous improvement of the forecasting and close process through improved analytics and reporting, real-time validations of inputs, and clearer storytelling to focus on the big picture to finance leadership.
• Build strong relationships across YouTube finance to ensure on-time and high-quality inputs from across the team.