Financial Analyst – Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Description

Financial Analyst II, Cloud Central Finance | Google

The Tone:
This is a role at Google, located in the US. Google is a 316,706-person organization focused on making sound financial decisions through in-depth analysis across its products. This role specifically contributes to the Cloud Central Finance team’s mission by empowering Cloud leadership with proactive, data-driven financial insights to drive rigorous execution and profitable growth. As a Financial Analyst, your work will be crucial in overseeing the publication and analysis of Google Cloud Product P&Ls, enabling product leadership to make data-driven growth and profitability decisions.

The TL;DR
• Role: Mid-Career
• Location: US
• Pay: $116000–$167000 yearly + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
• Team: Cloud Central FP&A team, acting as trusted, independent advisors to Cloud leadership.
• Mission: To empower leadership with proactive, data-driven financial insights needed to turn long-term strategy into rigorous execution and profitable growth.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Lead P&L Publication: Oversee the end-to-end P&L publication for Google Cloud products, including maintenance and variance analysis for actuals, annual planning, and monthly forecasting cycles.
• Orchestrate Annual Planning: Drive the annual planning process, delivering precise product-level P&L carve-outs that adapt to the fast evolution of the cloud business.
• Drive Reporting Rhythm: Establish a consistent, high-impact P&L reporting rhythm, proactively identifying business trends and providing granular insights to enhance stakeholder accountability and influence strategic direction.
• Automate with AI Tools: Lead the automation and integration of AI tools within the P&L workstream to significantly improve operational efficiency, productivity, and reporting accuracy.
• Manage Cross-functional Projects: Oversee complex, cross-functional projects across Finance, Engineering, Product, Strategy, and Operation and Go-To-Market organizations, ensuring alignment and timely delivery against demanding deadlines.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Mid-Career professional with a Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience: 4 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function, or an advanced degree. This includes executing full-cycle FP&A functions such as budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting, as well as experience in project management or cross-functional initiatives.
• Skills: Financial planning and analysis (FP&A), budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, financial modeling, project management, structuring ambiguous datasets, translating technical numbers into clear, actionable insights, and technical proficiency to leverage advanced analytics and AI productivity tools.
• Bonus: Experience navigating fast-evolving environments like the scaling AI landscape, ability to deliver accurate, rapid-turnaround analysis under tight deadlines while maintaining a view of overarching business goals, ability to build, scale, and maintain complex P&L reporting, exceptional business acumen to identify inefficiencies and optimize workflows, and technical proficiency to automate modeling and reporting using AI tools.