Finance Analyst

About the Role

Financial Analysts ensure that Google makes sound financial decisions. Your work, whether it's modeling business scenarios or tracking performance metrics, is used by leaders to make strategic company decisions. You will work on multiple projects at a time, focusing on details while finding creative ways to solve big-picture challenges. The Media Incentives Finance team ensures that Google makes sound financial decisions for our Ads business. In this role, you will partner with the Global Product Solutions team and work directly with finance, agreements, and commercial teams across different regions. You will understand key business metrics, highlight risks and opportunities via analytics, and drive process stewardship such as target setting and annual planning.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide thoughtful leadership, drive insights and analysis to support the Media Incentives team in managing the financial performance of pilot incentive programs, setting appropriate success metrics and tracking attainment accordingly.
• Coordinate between Finance and Go-to-Market (GTM) stakeholders across the globe to manage and report on Global agreements, ensuring consistent expectation setting around goals and performance for all relevant markets.
• Leverage technical expertise to provide quantitative analysis around incentives programs, including support for return on investment (ROI) 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.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• SQL (writing queries and retrieving data from relational databases)
• FP&A (financial planning and analysis)
• Spreadsheet skills (creating financial dashboards or complex models from scratch)
• Data analysis
• Agreement structures, terms, and governance
• Strategic and operational planning
• Consulting, digital, or advertising experience

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function, or 2 years with an advanced degree.
• Ability to manage and influence senior stakeholders and foster cross-functional networks without formal authority.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, combined with impeccable business judgment and the ability to address business challenges from a variety of backgrounds.

Note: You will have the opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA.