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

You are both a manager and a mentor, providing financial leadership and analytical support to partners of the core Finance team as well as giving your own team the support they need to become financial experts. You'll keep management informed on key financial metrics and work to improve financial operation practices throughout your region.

Cloud is a priority for Google. We develop groundbreaking cloud solutions, including Google Cloud Platform, to enable our clients’ digital transformation. The Data Cloud Finance team ensures that our Database, Data and Analytics, and Storage organizations make sound financial decisions. We are an important partner and independent advisor to the Cloud leaders, providing them with financial and analytical insight.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $219,000-$305,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Lead core financial rhythms (AOP, LRP, Forecasting, Close) for Database, Data and Analytics, and Storage investments, ensuring high accuracy and timeliness.

• Partner with product leaders to develop business models, pricing strategies, and packaging for data cloud products.

• Collaborate with engineering and strategy to maximize return on investment. Manage Technical Infrastructure (TI) financials, optimize efficiency targets, control marginal costs, and forecast capacity needs.

• Manage the data cloud profit and loss to maintain margins. Align consumption-based business trends with cost-of-service scaling and drive financial strategy for cross-product area integrations (e.g., AI/Gemini).

• Serve as the primary financial advisor to the VP/GM of Data Cloud, leading planning initiatives.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 14 years of experience in project management, data analysis or capacity planning role.

• 10 years of experience in finance, strategy and operations, consulting, or similar.

• Experience building, developing and leading a team.

Preferred qualifications

• 14 years of business or finance experience with exposure to enterprise technology, cloud infrastructure, database, or data and analytics consumption models.

• Experience in Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) or project management combined with business judgment and acumen.

• Proficiency with Google Workspace and other Cloud Applications with knowledge of SQL to independently query and model massive data cloud and storage datasets.

• Ability to be organized, focused, detail-oriented and be able to navigate with ambiguity in a constantly evolving environment.

• Excellent investigative, modeling, problem-solving, communication and teamwork skills with experience interacting with VP/GM and the management team.