Minimum qualifications:

• 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 consulting.
  
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to multitask.
  
• Excellent problem solving 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 will lead individual projects to transform planning, tracking and control processes. You will 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

• Lead assessment of business performance and assess risks and opportunities to form recommendations for Ads Marketing stakeholders.
• Collect and communicate insights and actionable next steps to Ads Marketing and Finance leadership.
• Ensure financial goals and tracking for marketing campaigns, and report on performance to leaders.
• Analyze the impact of marketing investments to see the impact of campaigns across markets, help the team diagnose under/over performance.
• Upgrade measurement methodologies to improve understanding of the incrementality of marketing impact.