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 SQL, or R, Python, or other programming/scripting languages to manipulate datasets.

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. Working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to take on big picture challenges.

With your analytics and financial acuity, you'll liaise between the Finance team with the functional areas it supports. You resolve issues related to forecasting, planning, resource prioritization and business profitability, and you help translate analyses into easy-to-understand presentations.

The team's mission is to be the financial compass for EMEA Marketing, empowering our partners with financial clarity and strategic foresight to drive sustainable growth. In this role, you will work on Google’s dynamic Marketing business. Using your problem solving skills, excellent relationship skills, and solid business partnering, you will help manage one of Google’s largest expenses to drive sustainable growth. You will play a key role in effective budget management, performance reviews, and process transformation.

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 marketing, aligning with the framework to drive a sustainable EMEA marketing function via enabling sound financial decision-making.
• Build and scale new analytical capabilities from dashboards to AI-enabled solutions.
• Drive a culture of performance via sound Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and ambitious yet achievable goals.
• Manage product area budgets, advising on resource allocation for maximum impact and ensure sound quarterly forecasts and minimal forecast versus actual variances.
• Execute complex analytics to deliver business results.