Senior Financial Analyst, Network Equipment Capital Expenditure

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, consulting, a related function, or an advanced degree.
  
• Experience in manipulating data sets using SQL or another programming/scripting language.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with procurement/supply chain of networking equipment.
  
• Knowledge of statistical forecasting methodologies including linear regression, probabilistic, and decision tree based.
• Ability to influence without authority, interact with all levels, set objectives, drive results, and work well as part of a team.
  
• Ability to challenge business initiatives.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work across multiple teams.
  

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.

As someone who knows the workings of the core Finance team inside and out, you'll lead individual projects to transform planning, tracking and control processes. You'll provide senior level management with insightful recommendations, planning and reporting support.

The team's goal is to drive scaling of the global network. As a Financial Analyst supporting Technical Infrastructure's (TI) Networking team, you will work as a finance business partner to the team that builds and operates Google's network. You will be responsible for providing insights that have an impact on the business. In this role, you will be responsible for monthly/quarterly finance reviews, modeling business scenarios, tracking performance metrics that will be used by the engineering, business, and finance leaders to make strategic resource allocation decisions.

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 $132,000-$196,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead monthly/quarterly finance reviews, annual planning, and long-range planning efforts.
• Partner with business to diligence network equipment procurement and deployment.
• Develop and report/dashboard key metrics to help business understand trends, opportunities, and challenges.
• Develop and evolve governance to ensure the team is procuring to planned deployment.
• Lead cross-functional projects to identify opportunities to drive efficiency (e.g., value identification) and report on progress to help the business team achieve goals.