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Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
Join Google's PDCO finance team as a Strategic Financial Analyst to manage financial health and evaluate growth initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Support monthly forecasting, annual operational planning, and long-range planning.
- Analyze top-line and bottom-line trends, highlighting key drivers of revenue and variable cost fluctuations.
- Build flexible financial models to evaluate promotional structures, device pricing strategies, user unit economics, assessing trade-offs between subscriber growth and per-user business growth.
- Serve as a trusted finance partner to cross-functional teams, executing standard financial reviews to track operational results, performance against plan, and milestone progressions.
- Streamline data infrastructure and improve execution. Leverage analytics tools and automated scripts to solve fragmented data bottlenecks and reduce manual reporting workflows.
- Partner with teams to manage hardware promotion financial frameworks and investment rationales. Model promotional return on investment, evaluate co-investment assumptions, track budgets to drive subscriber growth and optimize unit economics.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, 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.
- Ability to adopt and integrate within planning, forecasting, and operational processes to reduce manual effort, improve scenario modeling accuracy, and enable automated plan inputs.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to summarize financial structures into clear insights for business partners.
- Excellent financial modeling skills in Google Sheets and proficiency with database querying languages (e.g., SQL/business intelligence platform) to pull and structure fragmented data sets.
We Offer
- Competitive salary: $116,000 - $167,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
About the Company
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law.