Associate Finance Analyst, University Graduate
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This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Atlanta, GA, USA; Austin, TX, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA.Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in finance, business administration, accounting, mathematics, economics, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with financial analysis, forecasting, or modeling.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in data warehousing or reporting (e.g., SQL, SAP).
- Ability to form and leverage excellent relationships across functional areas and take initiative.
- Excellent problem-solving analytical and modeling skills, combined with excellent business judgment, strategic thinking, and the ability to communicate with executive business partners
- Excellent presentation and verbal/written communication 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.
With your analytics and financial acuity, you'll liaise between the Finance team with the functional areas it supports. You resolve issues related to forecasting, planning, resource prioritization and business profitability, and you help translate analyses into easy-to-understand presentations.
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 monthly, quarterly, and annual financial planning cycles, and prepare and manage financial reporting for leadership, including profit and loss, forecasting, etc.
- Use big data to architect metrics, solve problems, and influence executive decision-making.
- Assist with process improvement initiatives to drive scalable analysis and insight.
- Prepare and manage financial reporting for leadership, including Profit and Loss, Operational Expenditure, and forecasting.
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