Financial Analyst, Financial Planning and Analysis, Google Cloud

Google

4 - 6 years

Bengaluru

Posted: 22/06/2025

Job Description

Minimum 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 an advanced degree.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience in developing automated reports and dashboards to track key performance indicators (KPIs).
Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to provide financial insights and recommendations, participating in the annual budgeting and forecasting process.
Experience in creating and maintaining financial dashboards and reports using BI tools to visualize metrics and performance indicators.
Ability to conduct financial analysis to develop forecasts, budgets, and financial models for informed decision-making.
Ability to utilize SQL to extract and manipulate data sets for comprehensive financial reporting and analysis.
Ability to perform variance analysis to identify trends and support business planning and strategy.

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 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.

Responsibilities

Lead the development of deliverables for business analytics and business compensation, commissions, incentives, and programs to ensure coordination and execution between systems and process owners.
Analyze business data to identify performance trends, highlight areas for improvement, and decision-making for business compensation programs.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams like Central Operations on modeling cost for Headcount, productivity planning, evaluate and provide guidance on GTM strategy such as Greenfield or Digital Native, dedicated or pooled cost for short-term and long-term goals.
Analyze headcount related analytics and metrics to identify insights and recommendations to the cloud leadership and analyze datasets using SQL to support financial planning and analysis processes.
Own monthly, quarterly, and annual financial cycles to drive business performance and resource planning decisions, and define go-to-market strategies.

About Company

Google is a multinational technology company founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It is best known for its search engine but also develops products and services in areas like online advertising (Google Ads), cloud computing (Google Cloud), operating systems (Android, Chrome OS), web browsers (Chrome), and consumer electronics (Pixel devices, Nest). Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., its parent company formed in 2015. It plays a major role in shaping the internet, AI, and digital innovation globally.