Financial Analyst, Core Central Finance
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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.
- Experience executing full-cycle FP&A functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.
- Experience in project management or cross-functional initiatives.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in developing strategies in a changing engaged 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.
- Ability to take ownership, confidence to interact with all levels, set objectives, drive results, and be a team player.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work with a wide variety of departments.
- Experience with executive level communications and resource management.
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.
In this role, you will serves as the operational engine for the Core Finance team, directly owning the end-to-end execution of annual planning, key tool change management, and project tracking for leadership initiatives. You will provide a high-visibility platform to manage central executive resources while translating complex, ambiguous priorities into structured deliverables.
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.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.US: $116000 - $167000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefits
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Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end orchestration of the annual planning cycle for the Core Finance team. Drive timelines, coordinate deliverables, and design clear communication strategies to keep all stakeholders aligned.
- Act as the central program manager for critical initiatives and OKRs tracking. Maintain the central tracker for leadership, ensuring visibility into milestones, dependencies, and team progress across Core finance.
- Serve as the go-to resource and change management lead for core-wide tooling updates, helping the organization seamlessly adopt new systems and processes.
- Partner closely with leadership to manage critical central resources, including high-visibility calendar management standardization of executive slide templates, and management of key resource repositories to streamline team operations.
- Take ambiguous project briefs and turn them into structured, executable plans. Offers a direct opportunity to stretch your thinking and develop the leadership skills required to scale processes.
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