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 tackle big picture challenges.
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Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. We’re excited to continue to innovate and make people’s lives better through technology. The Hardware division will include Nexus, Chromecast, Consumer Hardware, OnHub, Glass, ATAP and other products.
As a leader in this organization, the you will play a pivotal role in defining the overall direction of the business including, but not limited to establishing financial goals, influencing the product roadmap, and building the necessary infrastructure to manage day-to-day operations.
In this role, you will be the responsible FP&A leader for Hardware. You will partner with the VP-level executives across Product, Engineering, Supply Chain, Sales, Marketing, and with Business Controllership to ensure launch readiness for new products, tightly manage financial budgets and targets/goals, establish performance metrics, and enable innovation in the consumer hardware space to help ensure success of our products and services.
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
Partner with Product, Sales, and Engineering leadership to evaluate long-term projections, investment strategies, and new technology and product launches; coordinate strategic conversations, and optimize resource allocation.
Oversee all aspects of the annual, quarterly and monthly Hardware planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes.
Drive actionable analyses and recommendations for investment prioritization, resource optimization and and efficiency improvements; define and promote a strong analytics and data management agenda, leveraging large and diverse datasets to inform and drive investment and operating expenditure decisions, automate and scale reporting and financial processes.
Partner closely with other Finance teams including Accounting & Controls, Internal Audit, Treasury, Financial Operations to ensure Google’s accounting, compliance and other financial requirements are appropriately supported.
Oversee a strong people development agenda, including promoting financial/technical skills building, setting forward-thinking objectives, collaborating across Finance functions and providing opportunities and coaching on effective business partnering.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
BA/BS degree in a quantitative field or equivalent practical experience.
15 years of relevant finance and business experience including specific experience of core finance processes in a consumer facing organization.
Preferred qualifications:
Master’s degree in Management or Business Administration.
Specific knowledge and experience of working with supply chains, retailers, and consumer hardware.
Experience of and proven ability to be successful in a complex, globally scaled product, sales and engineering environment, planning and managing at both the strategic and operational level - organized, detail-oriented, strategically focused.
Good business judgment, ability to communicate effectively with senior business partners and confidence to advocate for “the right thing to do for the business and Google”.
Superior business partnering skills incl. the ability to build senior level relationships, trust and get things done across functional boundaries. Ability to act as a trusted translator between Sales, Product, Engineering and Finance leaderships.
Track record of self-starting, increasing responsibility and successfully leading and developing a Finance team in a technical environment.
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