Google Hiring for Financial Analyst, Product Finance, Google Cloud at Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Full Time

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function, or an advanced degree.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with building data infrastructure (e.g., designing architecture, building data pipelines, implementing scalable monitoring) and implementing reporting solutions.
• Experience with business judgment for resource allocation decisions to achieve the desired business outcome and developing strategies in fast-paced engaging environments.
• Ability to work with data to produce analysis, influencing decision making with numerical analysis and generating insights.
• Ability to take ownership, confidence to interact with all levels, set objectives, drive results, and be a team player.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work with a wide variety of departments.

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.

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

• Support the creation and maintenance of data center region Profit and Loss (P&L) performance for total Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Perform diligence and report out quarterly to leadership on region performance against expectations.
• Support cross-functional analyses with key Go-To-Market (GTM) and product partners to better understand customer and infrastructure performance. Develop annual plan forecast that aligns with sales and product business Annual Operating Plan (AOP).
• Analyze new metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Develop goals for regions based on defining characteristics (e.g., maturity, size, etc.).
• Identify opportunities for margin improvement across GCP data center regions. Help size the opportunity of various divestment or sales strategies as part of the program.
• Partner with sales, product, and others to generate region level business and margin forecasts.

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