Senior Financial Analyst

About This Role

This Senior Financial Analyst role supports Google Cloud's financial decision-making for investments in the Cloud business, working closely with Cloud Product, Capacity, and TI organizations. The position involves providing financial and investigative insights to Cloud leaders and is suited for a candidate with strong financial planning and analysis experience in a multinational company setting.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside Capacity, TI, and DC planning to anticipate capacity constraints and implement efficiency gains that improve unit economics and overall profit and loss (P&L)
• Develop profit and loss and margin models to articulate margin drivers to the executive leadership
• Develop NPV and cash flow models to evaluate profitability for future NPI platforms and benchmark against other competitive products
• Partner with Engineering, TI, and PM to analyze the performance and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for AI Product SKUs, incorporating these insights into customer proposals
• Partner with Cloud Product, Capacity, and Engineering on various efficiency initiatives to utilize infra and develop next year efficiency goals

Requirements

• 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 FP&A functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting

Nice to have:

• Experience with SQL, large datasets, and integrated financial systems including advanced investigative skills
• Deep knowledge of Cloud infrastructure, AI/ML hardware (e.g., GPUs/custom silicon)
• Ability to balance immediate free cash flow maximization with long-term priorities in a changing, unstructured environment
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence Directors and VPs across Engineering, Product, Strategy
• Proven track record of streamlining complex, cross-functional planning cycles and building "single source of truth" models for complex and capital intensive infrastructure planning mechanisms

Benefits

• 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