Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- 2 years of experience in investment banking, corporate finance, management consulting, or similar
Preferred qualifications:
- Analytical experience working with large volumes of complex data
- Advanced proficiency in spreadsheets and familiarity with SQL
- Excellent people, communication and presentation skills, and ability to craft and deliver a message with credibility to influence senior leadership
- Robust analytical skills, combined with impeccable business judgment
- Driven, comfortable with ambiguity, and can direct work in an unstructured environment
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.
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.
- Provide management with clear insights and recommendations into the business, market trends, risks and opportunities leading to business enhancement and sales actions.
- Perform financial analyses to identify growth drivers to influence business activity.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to structure and execute strategic business initiatives to provide performance and analytical insights.
- Support critical financial processes such as business forecasting and target setting.
