Senior Financial Analyst

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 FP&A functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with database query (SQL coding and analysis).
• Experience leading cross-functional project teams.
• Knowledge of core finance processes and standard enterprise finance systems (e.g. SAP).
• Strong analytical skills and ability to adopt Google specific tools.
• Strong problem-framing, problem-structuring and project management skills, and the ability to communicate insights.

About the job:

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

This leadership role is part of the Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) function and provides financial and analytical insights and business planning support to the Technical Infrastructure team. In this critical role, you will dissect complex problems, deliver insights and help leaders throughout the business make critical strategic and resource allocation decisions and strike the right balance with risk management and controls.

Responsibilities:

• Manage TI unit costs and end-to-end CapEx processes, including forecasting, reporting, annual planning, and variance analysis.
• Implement scenario and predictive modeling to identify financial risks, evaluate self-funding opportunities, and drive spending re-prioritization.
• Partner with TI leadership, corporate dinance, and engineering to align investment decisions with organizational efficiency targets.
• Advocate for workflows by developing standardized, AI-augmented processes covering CapEx from demand/supply inputs to spend approvals.
• Construct and present complex analytical findings and strategic recommendations to senior leadership in a clear, decision-impacting manner.