Freelance Google Financial Analyst Jobs (NOW HIRING)

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X In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Chicago, IL, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, 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, or an advanced degree.
• Experience executing full-cycle FP&A functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in understanding infrastructure costs for cloud related businesses.
• Ability to work with and analyze large datasets and provide insights to business partners. Ability to incorporate AI tools in their daily work for process improvements.
• Ability to self-direct work in a changing environment and comfortable with ambiguity.
• Ability to plan, execute and deliver on projects in a timely manner and to multitask on varying projects and initiatives.
• Excellent problem-solving, investigative and modeling skills, including the ability to work with team leads to frame problems, structure analyses, and deliver impact.

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.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is changing the way the world accesses compute power. As global compute capacity rapidly shifts to the public cloud, GCP delivers virtualized AI, compute and big data/analytics tools to its customers at an unparalleled scale and speed, exposing Google's infrastructure to external customers. GCP is one of the fastest growing product areas at Google.
Our Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team supports the Product, Engineering, and Operations teams that build and sell GCP products. Within the Capacity Planning Finance team, we advise our partner teams on long term growth projections for cloud, manage the infrastructure budget for GCP and create long range plans for cloud infrastructure requirements.
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.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $141000 - $206000 (USD) 15% bonus target equity benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google .
Responsibilities

• Support cloud capacity planning team and work closely with cross functional stakeholders including product managers and other finance partners to develop the capacity forecast.
• Forecast infrastructure costs and CapEx for the cloud business and contribute to monthly and annual planning processes.
• Create financial models for analyzing capital expenditures (CapEx) and operational expenditures (OpEx) trends for various cloud business segments.
• Evaluate capacity and efficiency related initiatives providing optimal recommendations to executive leadership.
• Influence key strategy decisions on capacity as a finance partner for cloud capacity leadership.

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