Financial Analyst, Ads Operations

Financial Analyst, Ads Operations

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or other quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in financial planning and analysis, consulting, or a related function, or an advanced degree.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with analysis in high volume data environments.
• Experience managing or supporting global operations teams with a focus on driving efficiency and effectiveness.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with ability to synthesize data into useful formats and bring actionable insights through effective communication.

Responsibilities

• Own and be responsible for maintaining financial models, driving the monthly forecast process and variance analyses, and supporting Monthly Business Reviews, as well as ad hoc analysis for various operations functions.
• Manage business planning, analytics, and reporting; help drive monthly, quarterly, and annual financial planning cycles.
• Own forecast and planning models; deliver monthly forecasts, pacing updates, and volume mix rate analysis.
• Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders on cross-functional 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. While working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to solve big picture challenges.

In gTech Finance our mission is to illuminate the path to simplicity and sustainability, at scale, for gTech. In this role, you will partner with senior leaders in the gTech Ads Ecosystem to enable customers to succeed in their advertising journey through excellence in support and services.

As a Financial Analyst, you will partner with business leaders to understand value drivers and develop insights on investment strategy, and work with the broader Google Ads Ecosystem to influence product investments from a customer-first mindset. You will collaborate with Strategy, Operations, and Sales teams to develop annual budgets and to innovate Google's exceptional customer service strategies.

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.