Financial Analyst

Job Description

Financial Analyst I, Cloud Central | Google

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Google, located in the US. Google is a major technology organization providing diverse products. As a Financial Analyst, your expertise ensures Google makes sound financial decisions. Your work, from modeling business scenarios to tracking performance metrics, directly supports leaders in making strategic company decisions. This role involves resolving forecasting, planning, resource prioritization, and business profitability issues, translating complex analyses into easy-to-understand presentations for senior leadership.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, US
• Pay: $95000–$136000 yearly
• Team: Part of the Finance organization, supporting Cloud Central and collaborating with central finance teams.
• Mission: To ensure Google makes sound financial decisions and achieves strategic company objectives by providing in-depth financial analysis and managing critical financial processes.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Risk Management: Identify, evaluate, and prioritize financial risks and opportunities, applying resources efficiently to minimize negative impacts or maximize gains.
• Reporting Operations: Act as the operational backbone for monthly close and quarterly reporting cycles, compiling templates, analyzing profit and loss variances, and maintaining technical documentation for scalable fiscal reporting.
• Process Improvement: Partner with central finance teams to identify operational bottlenecks and implement automated or AI-driven workflows, building cross-functional relationships to resolve data inaccuracies and improve reporting speed and data health.
• Workflow Ownership: Serve as the operational owner for critical team workflows, including maintaining the Cloud Central calendar, establishing rigid data hygiene standards, managing system-wide data freshness, and performing complex cross-system reconciliations.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience: 2 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function within a multinational company setting, or an advanced degree. Experience executing full-cycle FP&A functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling.
• Skills: Strong analytical acuity, financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, data analysis, influencing decision-making with numerical analysis, and generating insights from data.
• Bonus: Experience with building financial reporting, producing analysis, implementing scalable monitoring and reporting solutions. Experience in developing strategies in changing environments with impeccable business judgment for resource allocation decisions.