Strategic Financial Analyst

Job Description

Financial Analyst, Google Fi | Google

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Google, a global technology company that builds and manages a wide array of products and services. As a Financial Analyst, you will ensure Google makes sound financial decisions by providing critical analysis and recommendations to leaders. Your work will directly support strategic company decisions within Google Fi, a unique subscription-based hardware and services model, influencing its financial health and growth initiatives.

The TL;DR
• Role: Mid-Career
• Type: Full-time
• Pay: $116000–$167000 yearly + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
• Team: PDCO (Platforms and Devices Commercial Organization) finance team
• Mission: To ensure Google Fi’s financial health and evaluate critical growth initiatives through data-driven analysis and strategic recommendations.
• Tech Stack: Google Sheets, SQL/business intelligence platform

What You’ll Actually Do
• Financial Planning: Support monthly forecasting, annual operational planning, and long-range planning by analyzing top-line and bottom-line trends and highlighting key drivers of revenue and variable cost fluctuations.
• Business Modeling: Build flexible financial models to evaluate promotional structures, device pricing strategies, and user unit economics, assessing trade-offs between subscriber growth and per-user business growth.
• Partnership and Review: Serve as a trusted finance partner to cross-functional teams, executing standard financial reviews to track operational results, performance against plan, and milestone progressions.
• Process Improvement: Streamline data infrastructure and improve execution by leveraging analytics tools and automated scripts to solve fragmented data bottlenecks and reduce manual reporting workflows.
• Investment Analysis: Partner with teams to manage hardware promotion financial frameworks and investment rationales, modeling promotional return on investment and tracking budgets to optimize unit economics.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, 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.
• Skills: Excellent financial modeling in Google Sheets, proficiency with database querying languages (e.g., SQL/business intelligence platform), and the ability to summarize financial structures into clear insights.
• Bonus: Ability to adopt and integrate within planning, forecasting, and operational processes to reduce manual effort, improve scenario modeling accuracy, and enable automated plan inputs.