Financial Analyst – Financial Analysis

Job Description

Finance Analyst | Google

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Google, offering a choice of location in either New York, NY, USA or Mountain View, CA, USA. Google operates as a global technology company, delivering a vast array of products and services. This Finance Analyst position is vital for the Media Incentives team, ensuring Google makes financially sound decisions for its incentive programs by providing critical analysis of investment scenarios and tracking performance metrics that inform strategic business choices.

The TL;DR
• Role: Senior
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, New York, NY; Mountain View, CA
• Pay: $141000–$206000 yearly + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
• Team: Media Incentives team
• Mission: Ensure Google makes sound financial decisions for Media Incentives programs through in-depth analysis of investment scenarios and performance tracking, directly supporting strategic business leadership.
• Tech Stack: SQL

What You’ll Actually Do
• Drive Insights: Provide thoughtful leadership, insights, and analysis to support the Media Incentives team in managing the financial performance of volume-based incentives programs targeting video growth.
• Conduct Quantitative Analysis: Leverage technical expertise to perform quantitative analysis around incentives programs, including support for return on investment and incrementality studies, collaborating with other teams.
• Foster Alignment: Interact with other Finance, Product, and partner teams to ensure strategic and analytical alignment, as well as data consistency and efficiency across operations.
• Support Global Teams: Assist regional Finance teams worldwide in developing incentive portfolios that align with their specific business goals.
• Manage Financial Planning: Support the product financial planning and analysis (FP&A) process by continuously forecasting the profit and loss (P&L) impact of incentive programs.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience: 7 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function (or an advanced degree), including executing full-cycle FP&A functions such as budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.
• Skills: Programming proficiency, specifically with SQL, and excellent spreadsheet skills demonstrated by experience creating financial dashboards or complex models.
• Bonus: Proven ability to self-start and work in an unstructured, ambiguous environment; strong planning and management skills at both strategic and operational levels; excellent problem-solving, analytical, and business judgment skills; and the capacity to build strong cross-functional networks, influencing and communicating effectively, particularly with executive management.