Strategic Finance Analyst, GCS

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA.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. - Experience executing full-cycle financial planning and analysis functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting. Preferred qualifications: - Experience using SQL to extract and manipulate data, building reporting dashboards. - Demonstrated track record of effectively partnering with technical, business and ops stakeholders. - Skilled at working in an unstructured environment, navigating ambiguity, managing multiple assignments simultaneously and bringing clarity and structure as you go. - Financial modeling skills, understanding trends, and developing insights. - Strong business judgement, with the ability to motivate colleagues and collaborate effectively to influence senior leadership. - Desire to structure and solve large, complex and novel analytical problems. 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 GCS Americas Ads Financ