Senior Financial Analyst, Google Cloud 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, or an advanced degree.
  
• Experience with SQL.
  
• Experience with mathematical modeling.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in using SQL to extract and manipulate data, or with other programming or scripting languages (e.g., R and Python).
  
• Experience in statistical modeling techniques, including regression analysis, time series forecasting, hypothesis testing, and Monte Carlo simulations.
  
• Experience with coding, scripting, and algorithm fairness.
  
• Ability to turn data into actionable insights.
  
• Excellent business acumen, problem-solving, and analysis skills, with the ability to communicate with the management team.
  
• Excellent quantitative, written and presentation skills.
  

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.

We develop cloud solutions, including Google Cloud Platform and Google Workspace, to enable our clients’ digital transformation.

The Google Cloud Go-To-Market Finance team ensures that Cloud Sales, Services, and Marketing organizations make sound financial decisions. We are an important partner and independent advisor to the Cloud commercial leaders, providing them financial, investigative, and strategic insight.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $132,000-$196,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Responsibilities

• Own key deliverables of business analytics and sales compensations, commissions, incentives, and programs to ensure efficient coordination and execution between systems and process owners. Analyze complex sales data to inform strategic decision-making for sales compensation programs.
• Develop and present business insights to Finance and Sales leaders on business generation and booking performance, sales representatives attainment and payout ratios, benchmark analysis between team and roles. Drive long-range plan and annual operating plan process for the Go-To-Market (GTM) for sales bonus. Play a critical role in setting the cloud plan.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams like Central Operations on modeling the cost for HC, productivity planning, evaluate and provide guidance on effectiveness on GTM strategy such as Greenfield or Digital Native, dedicated or pooled cost for short-term and long-term goals.