Financial Analyst – Retail Sales Finance

Job Description

Financial Analyst, Large Customer Sales, GBO Finance | Google

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Google, located in the US. Google creates diverse products, and this role contributes to ensuring sound financial decisions across its operations. Your work as a Financial Analyst will directly influence strategic company decisions, particularly within Alphabet’s critical Retail business. This position is vital for providing deep analytical insights that shape business strategy and impact the company’s top-line performance.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person – US
• Pay: $116000–$166000 yearly
• Team: GBO Finance, partnering with Americas Sales leadership
• Mission: This person owns ensuring Google makes sound financial decisions by providing in-depth analysis on strategic decisions, specifically for the Retail business within Alphabet’s commercial portfolio.
• Tech Stack: SQL, Python, R, JavaScript, Tableau, Looker

What You’ll Actually Do
• Strategy Partnering: Partner with Americas Sales leadership to drive insights and analysis supporting the retail business, directly shaping business strategy for Alphabet’s largest and most critical business-generating sector.
• Quantitative Analysis: Leverage technical expertise to provide quantitative analysis on revenue drivers within Retail and the broader digital commerce ecosystem, consistently feeding insights into executive-level dashboards and board reviews.
• Reporting & KPIs: Develop and manage sophisticated business reporting and key performance indicator (KPI) frameworks for the retail portfolio.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate with Ads Finance, Operations, and Business Intelligence teams to ensure investigative alignment and maintain absolute data consistency across complex, changing global commerce datasets.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field.
• Experience: 4 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function, or 2 years with an advanced degree.
• Skills: Problem-framing, problem-structuring, project management, quantitative analysis, stakeholder communication.
• Bonus: Advanced degree (MBA, CFA, or other similar qualification), experience leading cross-functional project teams, experience working with large datasets and coding languages, desire to structure and solve large, complex, and novel investigative problems.