Associate Finance Analyst, University Graduate
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 be 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 Finance organization is an important partner and advisor to the business.
Key Responsibilities
- Support monthly, quarterly, and annual financial planning cycles.
- Prepare and manage financial reporting for leadership, including Profit and Loss, forecasting, and Operational Expenditure.
- Use big data to architect metrics, solve problems, and influence executive decision-making.
- Assist with process improvement initiatives to drive scalable analysis and insight.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Financial analysis
- Forecasting
- Modeling
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in finance, business administration, accounting, mathematics, economics, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience in data warehousing or reporting (e.g., SQL, SAP).
- Ability to form and leverage excellent relationships across functional areas and take initiative.
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and modeling skills, combined with excellent business judgment, strategic thinking, and the ability to communicate with executive business partners.
- Excellent presentation and verbal/written communication skills.