Senior Technical Financial Analyst, Google Cloud Controllership

About the job

The Revenue tower within the Google Cloud Controllership team is a nimble group of subject matter experts who positively shape the systems and data landscape for the Cloud organization as it relates to Revenue, Bookings, Backlog and Sales Compensation. As a member of this team, you will leverage your finance, accounting, systems architecture, and production support knowledge to work with cross-functional organizations (Finance, Eng, Sales, etc) to develop/enhance solutions for Cloud financial processes or to enable the Cloud business to expand into new products, regions, or business models while remaining compliant with financial responsibilities.

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.

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 7 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function.
• 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:

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or previous audit experience.
• Experience with building data infrastructure (e.g., designing architecture, building data pipelines, 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.
• Experience with SAP or Ordering, Bookings, and Revenue Recognition Systems.
• Ability to work with data to produce analysis, influencing decision making with numerical analysis and generating insights.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and design efforts to further enhance financial data systems or processes.
• Execute robust change management, including moderating operating committee forums, to keep senior and cross-functional Systems decision-makers highly informed of roadmaps and project status(es), development and testing outcomes, and production support issues.
• Successfully partner with a set of stakeholders to get things done, from Finance and Accounting to Business Operations and Engineering.
• Assess financial data systems independently and as a part of a broader ecosystem within Google Cloud, producing high-quality documentation and process flows, identifying opportunities for new features, process automation, and risk-mitigating controls.
• Build exceptional comprehension of the Financial data systems within Google Cloud, as evidenced by the ability to proactively recommend improvements and quickly troubleshoot production issues when they do arise.