Business Finance Analyst, GCS Ads Finance (Fixed-Term Contract)
Business Finance Analyst, GCS Ads Finance (Fixed-Term Contract)
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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, or an advanced degree.
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 fluid competitive 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.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work with a wide variety of departments.
- Excellent problem-solving and technical (e.g., Financial Modeling, SQL, Data Viz) skills, with the ability to work with large volumes of complex data.
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.
Business Finance is part of Google’s Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) organization, providing financial and analytical support to Google’s business organization. Our work is integral to the strategic decision-making and operations of the commercial teams across all our advertising products. From understanding market and usage trends to exploring the productivity and return of our various investments, the Finance organization is an important partner and advisor to the commercial leaders.
Responsibilities
- Perform analysis of datasets to extract relevant information, identify trends, and generate actionable insights for the business.
- Drive business and product strategy across Google Ads Products, act as a trusted advisor to Sales leaders on business performance and finance related priorities. Provide management with clear insights and recommendations into drivers of business, market trends, risks, and opportunities leading to business enhancing sales and product actions.
- Lead investigative deep dives independently, or in partnership with cross-functional partners, bring clarity to the biggest and most complex problems facing Google.
- Influence with data, and articulate succinctly key insights to executive stakeholders to drive business decision making.
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