Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience in accounting or a related function, or 5 years with an advanced degree in accounting, business, or finance.
- Experience with sheets or spreadsheet software, including data manipulation, analysis, and reporting.
- Experience as a problem-solver running, cross-functional projects that span offices, teams, geographies, etc.
- Ability to communicate in English and Spanish fluently to support internal stakeholders relationship management in this region.
Preferred qualifications:
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Chartered Accountant (CA).
- Experience with Data Analytics and SQL.
- Experience managing project planning, status reporting, timeline estimation, issue tracking, meeting facilitation, and project documentation.
- Ability to have a collaborative style and work with cross-functional and international teams.
- Ability to propose next steps and roadblock solutions and anticipate questions and challenges early, manage time, and follow work plans.
- Excellent investigative skills and attention to detail, combined with impeccable business judgment with the ability to communicate effectively with executive management.
Google accountants are a savvy bunch who handle the core accounting responsibilities at Google. You know your accounting principles and the full accounting process end to end. You'll advise on financial reports required by governmental regulations, and review, analyze, and interpret financial and budgetary reports. Every day is a new challenge, and you're continually looking for ways to help our team become more efficient and effective. A team player at heart, you collaborate with our global team, advocate best practices and pitch in where needed. You move fast while keeping your attention to detail, and you tap into your problem-solving skills to support business objectives.
The gFA (Google Fixed Assets) team manages the global accounting for Googleβs entire Cap Ex portfolio, manufacturing operations and related expenses. This infrastructure is at the foundation of Google - the global data centers, networks and integrating hardware and software that powers both our unique customer products and services and our internal operations.
In this role, you will find innovative ways to manage our complex set of transactions. You will be focused on running highly effective and efficient processes for asset setup, modifications and retirements, as well as month end close reporting and reconciliation processes related to Property, Plant and Equipment (PP&E) accounts.
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.
- Perform month end close tasks related to PP&E area (e.g., FA ledger close, capex accruals, etc.). Manage asset creation and retirement processes, provide commentary for flux analysis on a monthly and quarterly basis, book journal entries for your related process, partner with business for new-process/product-implementations.
- Prepare and present financial information to audiences including finance leaders, business partners, auditors, and regional accountants.
- Find efficiencies in the processes through elimination, automation and extended workforce, supporting system implementations as a subject matter expert in fixed assets.
- Support SOX controls for PP&E processes, run processes according to risk assessment and control frameworks. Escalate when risks are detected.
- Work towards constant improvements of gFA processes to drive higher quality standards in the fixed assets register, reconciliations, and reporting produced for local audits and close reporting.
