Financial Analyst, Devices and Services

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.2 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function, or an advanced degree.
• Experience executing full-cycle FP&A functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.
• Experience with programming (i.e. SQL).

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with building financial reporting, produce analysis, implementing scalable monitoring and implementing reporting solutions.
• Experience in developing strategies in fast-paced competitive environments, impeccable business judgment for resource allocation decisions to achieve the desired business outcome.
• Ability to work with data to produce analysis, influencing decision making with numerical analysis and generating insights.

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. 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 have the opportunity to work on one of Google’s fastest moving businesses - Devices and Services!

As part of the EMEA Devices and Services Finance team you will develop a holistic and in-depth understanding of one of Google’s emerging product businesses, services and the ecosystem they operate within. You will be partnering with the EMEA Partnerships, Product, Marketing and GTM teams, in order to shape the strategic direction, while ensuring sound financial decisions for Google.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful.

Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Sales, CBM and Ops teams to inform the economics and risk management of retail/carrier agreements, including reviewing contract terms and shaping pricing and promotional strategy.
• Manage and drive efficiency in core Finance processes such as reporting, monthly forecasting and accruals, budget management and financial planning, leveraging Google’s data infrastructure and technical tools (dashboard, SQL, SAP, etc.).
• Drive analysis to surface insights and recommendations on country, partner and campaign performance, to inform business decisions and long term strategy.
• Develop tools and data infrastructure to communicate spend activity and effectiveness across different initiatives to a range of audiences, including executive management, simply and efficiently.
• Work alongside controllership to ensure governance and guardrails are in place, within which the business can operate.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .