Financial Analyst, Cloud Go-to-Market Finance

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.
• Experience executing full-cycle financial planning and analysis functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in financial modeling, financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function.
• Knowledge of the Cloud industry, different roles and incentives.
  
• Excellent quantitative, written, and presentation skills; innovative, organized, thorough; eagerness to further develop these 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.

Cloud is a strategic priority for Google. We develop groundbreaking cloud solutions, including Google Cloud Platform and Google Workspace, to enable our clients’ digital transformation.

Our Finance team ensures that Cloud Go-to-Market (GTM) organization is enabled with accurate and timely financial information needed to drive success. We are an important partner and independent advisor to Cloud leaders, providing them financial, analytical and strategic insight.

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:

• Help execute the forecast and due diligence processes for total cloud revenue.
• Partner with Speciality Product and Region Finance teams to roll up total cloud results and forecasts for revenue and present insights to the Cloud Executive leadership team.
• Coordinate with Sales Operations teams on deliverables.