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, 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.
- Experience with SQL, R, or Python, or other programming/scripting languages to manipulate datasets.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with building financial reporting, producing analysis, implementing scalable monitoring and implementing reporting solutions.
- Experience with business process improvement, project management, and consulting.
- Ability to work with data to produce analysis, influencing decision making with numerical analysis and generating insights.
- Ability to work in an unstructured environment, and manage ambiguity, with the desire to attack large, complex problems.
- Ability to be a team player with a positive attitude, and excellent written and verbal business communication and people 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.
With your analytics and financial acuity, you'll liaise between the Finance team with the functional areas it supports. You resolve issues related to forecasting, planning, resource prioritization and business profitability, and you help translate analyses into easy-to-understand presentations.
The team's mission is to be the financial compass for EMEA Marketing, empowering our partners with financial clarity and strategic foresight to drive sustainable growth.
In this role, you will work on Google’s dynamic Marketing business. Using your problem-solving skills, excellent relationship building skills, and solid business partnering, you will help manage one of Google’s largest expenses to drive sustainable growth. You will play a key role in effective budget management, performance reviews, process transformations across Platforms and Devices (P&D) (e.g., Pixel Ecosystem, Home and Health, Android and Play) and help shape its marketing strategy.
Responsibilities
- Orchestrate the platform and devices budget, directing monthly reporting for the EMEA region and managing the end-to-end forecasting and quarterly variance analysis processes.
- Lead cross-functional collaboration with Strategy and Operations, GTM, and S2P teams to refine marketing strategies and streamline workflows from initial concept to regional implementation.
- Act as the primary financial liaison for EMEA Marketing, delivering weekly budget insights, conducting profit and loss training, and distilling complex financial updates during annual planning cycles.
- Pioneer the development of scalable analytical tools, transitioning from traditional dashboards to AI-enabled solutions to drive data-informed decision-making across the devices and services portfolio.
- Define and monitor key performance indicators and measurement frameworks, ensuring marketing investments are tied to tangible business outcomes and sound return on investment metrics.
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