Senior Finance Analyst, Google Cloud London, England
Job description
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Economics, Statistics, related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience in Finance, Analytics, Consulting, Corporate strategy, or similar function.
- Experience with data modeling and SQL scripting language.
- Ability to speak and write in English.
Preferred qualifications:
- Knowledge of the Cloud/Software industry.
- Proficiency with SQL, and familiarity with Javascript, Java, R, or Python.
- Ability to communicate and influence effectively at the executive level and form working relationships across business, operational, and technical functions.
- Ability to self-direct work in an unstructured, fast-paced environment, and comfortable with ambiguity.
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.
Google Cloud is a strategic priority for Google, we develop groundbreaking cloud solutions, including Google Cloud Platform and Google Workspace, to enable our clients’ digital transformation. The Google Cloud Go-To-Market Finance team ensures that Cloud Sales, Services, and Marketing organizations make sound financial decisions. We are an important partner and independent advisor to the Cloud commercial leaders, providing them financial, analytical, and strategic insight.
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 data infrastructure. Ensure data consistency and accuracy, and organize data regarding clients regions, segments, industries, and cohorts.
- Deliver automated reporting solutions for executives and analysts.
- Build and maintain forecasting models to support planning and goal setting, and drive complex analysis projects to provide insights to executive leaders.
- Provide end-to-end Sales Finance support (Top Line reporting/forecasting/planning, P&L investment spend management, agreement reviews, and approvals).
- Partner cross-functionally with Sales, Sales Operations, Business Intelligence, Finance, and the MD for EMEA Public Sector.
