Financial Analyst I, Cloud Central
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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 FP&A functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with building financial reporting, produce analysis, implementing scalable monitoring and implementing reporting solutions.
- Experience in developing strategies in 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.
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.
US: $95000 - $136000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
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Responsibilities
- Identify, evaluate, and prioritize risks followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities.
- Act as the operational backbone for monthly close and quarterly reporting cycles. Compile standard presentation templates, analyze profit and loss variances, and maintain technical documentation to ensure scalable, repeatable fiscal reporting.
- Partner with central finance teams to identify operational bottlenecks and implement automated or AI-driven workflows. Build cross-functional relationships to resolve data inaccuracies and continuously improve reporting speed and data health.
- Serve as the operational owner for critical team workflows, including maintaining the Cloud Central calendar that multiple teams rely on to plan processes. Establish rigid data hygiene standards by managing system-wide data freshness, driving platform navigation enhancements, and performing complex cross-system reconciliations.
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