Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience with SQL, analyzing datasets.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in business partnering or a consulting role.
- Experience in Google sheets based analysis, building data pipelines and dashboards.
- Experience in executive communication.
- Experience with statistical analysis, driver analysis, and incrementality calculations.
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.
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 thought leadership and influence decision making at UKI Management Group level (i.e., VP and Director+ team) through deep analytical insight into key business drivers and product trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Structure and communicate complex, ambiguous, and potentially challenging business issues to help the leadership team set direction. Contribute as a member of the leadership team on matters beyond Finance.
- Build a network across sales, finance, and product leadership, as well as a team of analysts across sales, operations, and finance to work on a wide range of analytical and operational questions.
- Leverage Google’s big data to drive scalable analysis of business growth drivers and trends. Craft and present quantitative analyses to translate complex data into actionable insights.
- Develop suitable sales headcount and opex budgets, ensuring that investment is allocated across countries, channels, and products.
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