Financial Analyst – Media Incentives

Job Description

Finance Analyst | Google

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Google, located in New York, NY, USA or Mountain View, CA, USA. Google builds global products and services that connect users and businesses worldwide, across search, ads, cloud computing, and more. This role is crucial for ensuring Google makes sound financial decisions regarding its Media Incentives programs, providing analytical insights that guide strategic choices made by business leaders.

The TL;DR
• Role: Experienced Professional
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, New York, NY, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA
• Pay: $141000–$206000 yearly
• Team: Media Incentives team
• Mission: Analyze modeling investment scenarios and track performance metrics to inform strategic decisions for Media Incentives programs.
• Tech Stack: SQL

What You’ll Actually Do
• Leadership: Provide thoughtful leadership and drive analysis to support the Media Incentives team in managing the financial performance of volume-based incentives programs for video growth.
• Analysis: Leverage technical expertise to deliver quantitative analysis around incentives programs, including support for return on investment and incrementality studies, collaborating with other teams.
• Collaboration: Interact with other Finance, Product, and partner teams to ensure strategic and analytical alignment, along with data consistency and efficiency.
• Support: Support regional Finance teams across the globe in developing incentive portfolios that align with their specific business goals.
• Forecasting: Support the product financial planning and analysis (FP&A) process by consistently 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. This is an experienced professional role.
• Experience: 7 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.
• Skills: Programming (SQL), comprehensive financial planning and analysis, data modeling, variance analysis, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Bonus: Experience writing SQL queries and retrieving data from relational databases, ability to work independently in an unstructured environment while dealing with ambiguity, strong cross-functional networking and influencing skills, and excellent spreadsheet skills for creating financial dashboards or models.