Senior Business Finance Analyst, AppDev, Google Customer Solutions

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function.
• Experience in full-cycle financial planning and analysis functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling.

Preferred qualifications:

• Advanced degree (MBA, CFA, or other similar qualification).
• Experience leading cross-functional project teams.
• Ability to put structure to ambiguous problems and drive insights.
• Excellent problem-framing, problem-structuring and project management skills.
• Excellent investigative and technical (Financial Modelling/SQL/Data Viz) skills working with large volumes of complex data.
• Excellent business judgment and leadership skills with the ability to communicate with clarity and engage with an executive management team.

About the job

Financial Analysts ensure that Google makes sound financial decisions. As a Financial Analyst, your work, whether it's modeling business scenarios or tracking performance metrics, is used by our leaders to make strategic company decisions. Working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to take on big picture challenges.

As someone who knows the workings of the core Finance team inside and out, you'll lead individual projects to transform planning, tracking and control processes. You'll provide senior level management with insightful recommendations, planning and reporting support.

This role offers you the opportunity to partner with Global App Developers (AppDev) (Google Customer Solutions) Leadership to build the future of the App Developers digital ecosystem. The AppDev team focuses on supporting and growing clients with mobile applications. Their main goal is to help these clients succeed and increase their investment in Google's app advertising solutions to drive installs and reengagement with their app.

In this role, you will work with executive sales leaders and key partners to enable robust decision-making by understanding their business, leading cross-functional efforts to grow the product area, and providing the strategic financial leadership required to manage complex portfolios. You will be a well-rounded top performer who can lead macro-business modeling initiatives and grow in a high-energy growth environment.

The name Google came from "googol," a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. And nobody at Google loves big numbers like the Finance team when providing in depth analysis on all manner of strategic decisions across Google products. From developing forward-thinking analysis to generating management reports to scaling our automated financial processes, the Finance organization is an important partner and advisor to the business.

Responsibilities

• Act as a Trusted advisor to Sales Leaders (Director+) on business performance and finance related priorities. Provide management with clear insights and recommendations.
• Drive projects and initiatives end-to-end for Financial Planning and Analysis and support large, cross-functional, complex projects and initiatives.
• Drive business strategy across the AppDev Business. Define financial analysis objectives, build top-line analytical frameworks, and effectively prioritize activities that highlight opportunities and gaps in programs/product/App verticals performance.
• Lead investigative deep dives separately in partnership with finance and cross-functional partners.
• Partner effectively with finance, sales, sales operations and strategy in country, regional and global teams. Partner closely with other Finance teams and Revenue Strategy and Operations (RSO) to drive aligned business strategies.