Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience using SQL or R to extract and manipulate quantitative data.
• Experience with data modeling, data visualization, and building dashboards.

Preferred qualifications:

• Strong analytical and financial modeling skills; experience in working with large datasets.
• Knowledge of the Cloud/Software industry.
• Demonstrated ability to lead in a cross-functional, fast-paced environment and drive complex operational initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and communicate at an executive level, both internally and externally.
• Excellent verbal and written communication 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. While working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to solve big picture challenges.

The Cloud Sales finance team ensures that Cloud Sales makes sound financial decisions. We are an important partner and independent advisor to the Cloud commercial leaders, providing them financial, analytical, and strategic insight.

As a Senior Finance Analyst for EMEA Revenue and Booking, you will provide high-quality reports, analysis, and forecasts to enable executive-level decision making and help accelerate performance.

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

• Set up a robust business generation and bookings data infrastructure; ensure data consistency and accuracy; organize data regarding client's regions, segments, industries, cohorts. 
• Deliver automated reporting solutions for executives and analysts.
• Build forecasting models to support planning and goal setting.
• Drive complex and time-critical analysis projects to provide insights to senior leaders.
• Partner cross-functionally with Sales, Sales Operations, Business Intelligence, Finance.