Financial Analyst, Technical Infrastructure Finance

About The Role: Financial Analyst, Technical Infrastructure Finance

As a Financial Analyst, Technical Infrastructure Finance, 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. You will lead individual projects to transform planning, tracking and control processes.

You will have a unique opportunity to work regularly with the business' leadership team, and be deeply embedded in the business and expected to serve as a strategic thought partner. You will be regularly communicating complex analytical findings, models, and strategic recommendations effectively to audiences, including executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Partner with multiple stakeholders across Technical Infrastructure, Engineers, Negotiators, Controllership and Google product/service teams to deliver on efficient scaling of Google’s network.
• Develop financial models and analyze them to support strategic initiatives.
• Lead monthly finance reviews of financial trends to executive audiences.
• Drive strategic projects to help business with decision making and improving efficiency of networking infrastructure.
• Influence the technology and provide financial guidance to business decision makers to ensure sound financial decisions, including ad-hoc business cases and capturing return on investment.

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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of the networking, telecom, cloud, or fiber industry.
• Ability to solve complex problems and navigate ambiguity in a dynamic environment.
• Ability to work with a high degree of proactivity and ownership mindset.
• Ability to grasp complex problems and convert them into actionable financial analyses.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with experience conveying complex financial concepts to audiences.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align cross-functional teams around financial recommendations.

Benefits (US-based employees)

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 (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Key skills/competency

• Financial Modeling
• Financial Analysis
• Strategic Initiatives
• Stakeholder Management
• FP&A
• Business Partnering
• Networking Infrastructure
• Executive Communication
• Quantitative Analysis
• Decision Support