Global Financial Analyst

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.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

• Partner with EMEA Large Customer Sales (LCS) Agency leadership to shape the long-term commercial strategy, organizational structure, and joint business plans for Global Headquartered advertisers in EMEA.
• Lead financial modeling and analytics for agencies and advertisers, while tracking key performance metrics, assess the effectiveness of agency incentive structures, and deliver insights to optimize business growth.
• Support the planning and quota setting for the EMEA Agency business, ensuring alignment with regional and global sales targets.
• Leverage AI tools and advanced data analytics to automate routine reporting, scale operations, and deepen the complexity of financial analyses and Cross-Functional Collaboration, collaborate with Finance teams (regional and global), Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy teams, and Sales Operations to deliver unified business insights.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
• 7 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), commercial business partnering, consulting, corporate strategy, or a related field.
  
• Experience working in the digital advertising industry and with digital agencies.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with building data infrastructure (e.g., designing architecture, building data pipelines, implementing scalable monitoring) and implementing reporting solutions.
  
• Experience in developing strategies in fast-paced competitive environments, impeccable business judgment for resource allocation decisions to achieve the desired business outcome.
  
• Leadership experience with complex strategic and operational initiatives, across multiple products, functions, and geographies.
  
• Ability to work with data to produce analysis, influencing decision making with numerical analysis and generating insights.
  
• Ability to take ownership, confidence to interact with all levels, set objectives, drive results, and be a team player.