Finance Analyst

The Media Incentives team ensures that Google makes sound financial decisions for Media Incentives programs. As a Financial Analyst, you will analyze modeling investment scenarios and track performance metrics used by business leaders to make strategic decisions.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $141000 - $206000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Provide thoughtful leadership, drive insights and analysis to support the Media Incentives team in managing the financial performance of volume-based incentives programs targeting video growth.
• Leverage technical expertise to provide quantitative analysis around incentives programs, including support for return on investment and incrementality studies, working in partnership with other teams.
• Interact with other Finance, Product, and partner teams to assure strategic and analytical alignment, as well as data consistency and efficiency.
• Support regional Finance teams across the globe in crafting incentive portfolios aligned to their business goals.
• Support product financial planning and analysis (FP&A) process by forecasting profit and loss (P&L) impact of incentive programs on an ongoing basis.

Qualifications

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, 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 programming (i.e. SQL).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience writing SQL queries and retrieving data from relational databases.
• Ability to self-start and self-directed work in an unstructured environment; comfortable dealing with ambiguity and a fast-paced environment
• Ability to plan and manage at both the strategic and operational level.
• Ability to create and foster strong cross-functional networks and manage without authority; excellent leadership, influencing and communication skills.
• Excellent problem-solving and analysis skills, combined with impeccable business judgment and the ability to communicate and partner with a executive management team.
• Excellent spreadsheet skills with experience creating financial dashboards or models.