Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, other quantitative field (e.g., Math, Physics, Engineering), or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in finance, strategy and operations, sales operations, go-to-market, management consulting, or other relevant experience in a financial or analytical role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in the Hardware, Retail, or Carrier industries.
• Experience in financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting, focusing on cost structure management within the consumer hardware industry.
• Experience identifying opportunities for business improvement and defining/measuring the success of initiatives.
• Experience coding with SAP, SQL, or similar language.
• Ability to take initiative, be organized, strategic, and detail oriented, multitask, apply creativity, and work in an ambiguous, evolving environment.
• Problem-solving and analytical skills with a strong business acumen.

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. While working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to solve big picture challenges.

We motivate marketers to allocate resources in Google’s interests and manage their budgets, we measure return on investment (ROI) and multiply impact through strategic insights and recommendations.

In this role, you will work on the financials for marketing Google’s Devices and Services businesses. You will develop analyses and insights to help your business partners understand the value of marketing initiatives, provide recommendations on where to invest further, and improve day-to-day financial processes. You will be partnering with the EMEA Partnerships, Product, Marketing, and Go-To-Market (GTM) teams, in order to shape the strategic direction, while ensuring sound financial decisions for Google.

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

• Manage and drive efficiency in core Finance processes such as reporting, monthly forecasting and accruals, budget management and governance, and financial planning.
• Create and lead regular financial reviews to business, surfacing insights to help leadership understand country, partner, and campaign performance. Provide recommendations to shape their investment decisions and long-term strategy.
• Develop tools and data infrastructure to communicate spend activity and effectiveness across different initiatives to a range of audiences, including executive management, simply and efficiently.
• Work alongside controllership to ensure governance and processes are in place, within which the business can operate.
• Research cost trends across the business to help inform spend strategy and improve ROI of the business.