Financial Analyst, Financial Planning and Analysis, Google Cloud
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- 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 developing and maintaining complex SQL queries to extract and analyze financial data from various sources.
- Experience with automated data pipelines for efficient data retrieval and financial reporting processes using SQL, Python, or other programming languages.
- Experience designing and implementing data models and ETL processes to support financial reporting and analysis.
- Experience with interactive financial dashboards and visualization tools to effectively communicate findings.
- Ability to collaborate with the FP&A team to provide data-driven insights for decision-making.
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. While working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to solve big picture challenges.
In this role, you will ensure that Google 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, analytical 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.
- Own key deliverables of business analytics and sales compensations, commissions, incentives, programs to ensure efficient coordination and execution between systems and process owners.
- Own monthly, quarterly and annual financial cycles (e.g., forecast and accruals), drive visibility into business performance and resource planning decisions and define/evaluate go-to-market strategies.
- Analyze complex sales data to identify performance trends, highlight areas for improvement, and inform strategic decision-making for sales compensation programs.
- Develop and present business insights to Finance and Sales leaders on business growth and booking performance, sales representative attainment and payout ratios, benchmark analysis between team and roles.
- Be a knowledge and technical expert within Anaplan and SAP and other custom compensation solutions and, Data Sources for growth and booking, sales compensation processes and attainment and payout rules