Financial Analyst, EMEA Marketing.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 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 with building financial reporting, producing analysis, implementing scalable monitoring and implementing reporting solutions.
• Experience in developing strategies in fast-paced engaging environments, impeccable business judgment for resource allocation decisions to achieve the desired business outcome.
• Ability to work with data to produce analysis, influencing decision making with numerical analysis and generating insights.

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 this role, you will work on Google’s dynamic Marketing business. Using your analytical skills, excellent relationship skills, and solid business partnering, you will help manage one of Google’s largest expenses to drive sustainable growth. You will play a key role in effective budget management, performance reviews, and process transformation.

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:

• Drive a sustainable EMEA marketing function by enabling sound financial decision-making.
• Execute complex analytics to deliver business results. Ensure sound quarterly forecasts and minimal FvA variances.
• Build and scale new analytical capabilities from dashboards to AI-enabled solutions.
• Partner with Marketing, aligning with the champion-challenger framework. Manage multi-million dollar product area budgets, advising on resource allocation for maximum impact.
• Drive a culture of performance via sound KPIs, and ambitious yet achievable goals.