Senior Technical Financial Analyst I

• 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.
• 7 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function, or an advanced degree.
• Experience executing full-cycle financial planning and analysis functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.
• Experience with programming (e.g., SQL).

Preferred qualifications:

• Extensive experience at a strategy or boutique consulting firm.
• Knowledge of supply chain (e.g., semiconductor or hardware).
• Proficient understanding around technical server components/assembly.
• Ability to communicate complicated analysis, logic, and solutions in a clear and concise manner.
• Excellent business partnering, influencing and presentation skills.
• Proven success in planning and managing at both the strategic and operational level, while being organized, detail-oriented, and strategically focused, with the ability to prioritize and pivot in a fast-paced, 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.

Technical Infrastructure (TI) is the foundation of Google - the global data centers, networks, and integrating hardware and software that power both our unique customer products and services and our internal operations.

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

• Support the Global Strategic Sourcing and Silicon Operations (GS3O) team in Technical Infrastructure in the annual planning process through subject matter expertise and targeted decision support.
• Partner with the Global Commodity Management (GCM) and Supply Chain Risk teams on strategic supplier/vendor selections to enable the end-to-end hardware component roadmap and optimize CapEx/OpEx cost structures.
• Lead financial reviews with executive leadership in GS3O and Technical Infrastructure Finance, and lead core financial processes such as Long-Range Plan (LRP) CapEx forecasting and spend approvals.
• Create and track key performance metrics and goals to measure financial and operational performance; design and build rigorous analytical tools to streamline and automate reporting.
• Manage and track major elements of the financial planning and analysis budget, supporting custom silicon CapEx savings goals and monitoring variances.