Business Finance Analyst, Ads, Google Customer Solutions
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, a related function, or a relevant advanced degree.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience using SQL to extract and manipulate data, building reporting dashboards.
- Experience in programming languages such as R, Python.
- Excellent financial modeling skills, with the ability to understand trends, develop insights, and turn them into strategies with high impact.
- Excellent business judgment, with the ability to motivate colleagues and collaborate effectively to help influence executive leadership.
- Excellent quantitative, innovative, organization, communication, partnership, and presentation skills.
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.
Ads Finance is part of Google’s Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) organization, providing financial support to Google’s business organization. Our work is integral to the operations and strategic decision-making of the commercial teams across all our advertising products. From understanding market and usage trends to exploring the productivity and returns on our various investments, the Finance organization is an important partner and adviser to the commercial leaders.
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
- Provide executives with clear insights into drivers of business growth, risks, and opportunities.
- Engage cross-functional and Geo Finance teams to drive scalable analyses, tools, and insights.
- Lead decision making on investment strategies for products, identification of key market drivers for business generation and business profitability, and resource allocation.
- Analyze financial results and key performance metrics on a periodic basis to support decision making. Build and maintain long-term financial models to identify the viability of projects, analyze expected returns, and support long-term resource allocation.
- Provide decision support for day-to-day operational decisions and macro level project decisions through financial analysis. Define Key Performance Indicators and business quarterly targets for the business and own reporting and analysis to track performance.
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