Business Finance Analyst, Central Intelligence and Analytics
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function, or an advanced degree.
- Experience executing full-cycle financial planning and analysis (FP&A) functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.
- Experience with Spreadsheets, SQL and working with data.
Preferred qualifications:
- Understanding of advertisers marketing objectives.
- Familiarity with the Display or Video Ads Businesses.
- Ability to take initiative, manage ambiguity, and self-direct work in an unstructured environment.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to craft and deliver a message with credibility to influence executive leadership.
- Excellent problem-solving and analysis skills.
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.
We are APAC's Central Intelligence and Analytics (CIA) team, a part of Business Finance. We are a critical component in the Finance machinery running the APAC Ads Business, ensuring processes run smoothly while delivering critical analyses, insights, and opportunities to the business.
As a Financial Analyst for the Central Intelligence team with a focus on Upper-Funnel Marketing Objectives, you will primarily be responsible for generating insights into the full-funnel ads business. You will enable proactive actions to elevate the business, as well as reactive analyses to aid performance improvement.
Responsibilities
- Create and maintain a regular reporting cadence to surface insights into the ups and downs of our full-funnel ads businesses.
- Own and manage the related business performance problem-solving agenda.
- Develop technical expertise to expand the capabilities of the team.
- Conduct analyses using techniques and tools such as R, SQL, Tableau, etc.
- Forecast business performance quarters and years into the future to provide foresight into areas suitable for further investment.
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