Financial Analyst – Finance Operations & Planning

Job Description

Financial Analyst II, Core Central Finance | Google

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Google, located in Sunnyvale, CA. Google is a global technology company providing information, products, and platforms that millions of people use daily. As a Financial Analyst, your work ensures that Google makes sound financial decisions, with your analyses informing leaders to make strategic company choices. You will serve as the operational engine for the Core Finance team, owning critical planning and tracking initiatives.

The TL;DR
• Role: Mid-Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, Sunnyvale, CA
• Pay: $116000–$167000 yearly
• Team: Core Central Finance team, partnering with leadership
• Mission: Ensure sound financial decisions by owning the end-to-end execution of annual planning, key tool change management, and project tracking for leadership initiatives.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Orchestrate: Own the end-to-end annual planning cycle for the Core Finance team, driving timelines, coordinating deliverables, and designing clear communication strategies.
• Manage: Act as the central program manager for critical initiatives and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) tracking, maintaining visibility into milestones and team progress.
• Lead Change: Serve as the go-to resource and change management lead for core-wide tooling updates, facilitating the adoption of new systems and processes.
• Partner: Work closely with leadership to manage critical central resources, including calendar management standardization and key resource repositories.
• Structure: Take ambiguous project briefs and transform them into structured, executable plans, developing leadership skills required to scale processes.

The Must-Haves
• Background: 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, including executing full-cycle FP&A functions (budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, modeling within a multinational company) and project management or cross-functional initiatives.
• Skills: Expertise in financial planning and analysis (FP&A); full-cycle FP&A execution (budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, modeling); project management and cross-functional initiative leadership; and data analysis for influencing decision-making.
• Bonus: Experience developing strategies and exercising business judgment for resource allocation; ability to take ownership, interact with all levels, set objectives, drive results, and be a team player; and excellent communication skills for working with diverse departments.