Senior Finance Analyst, Network Equipment, Capex

Minimum Qualifications:

• 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, or an advanced degree.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with procurement/supply chain for networking equipment, routers, switches, and optical equipment.
• Understanding of statistical forecasting methodologies, linear regression, probabilistic and decision tree based.
• Ability to work across multiple teams.
• Ability to influence without authority, with confidence to interact with all levels, drive results, and be a team player.
• Ability to have ownership mindset, and tests business initiatives.
• Excellent communication 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. While working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to solve big picture challenges.

Google Networking leads the industry on the volume of traffic (voice, video and data) and network technology. Senior financial analyst ensures that Google Global Networking, potentially the largest network in the world, makes sound financial investment decisions as it grows is terrestrial and undersea capacity and space and power footprint to support the demand of multiple Google services, Search, Ads, YouTube, Cloud and other PAs. In this role, you will partner with business teams to lead projects to transform Opex and Capex planning, tracking and spend control processes. You will drive influence with insightful recommendations, planning and reporting support. Your work, whether it's month end close, monthly finance reviews, modeling business scenarios or tracking performance metrics, is used by the leaders to make strategic investment decisions. Working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to take on big picture tests.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $137,000-$201,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Lead monthly/quarterly finance reviews, annual planning and long range planning efforts. Partner with business to work on network equipment procurement and deployment.
• Develop and report/dashboard key metrics to proactively help business understand trends, both opportunities and tests.
• Develop/evolve governance norms to ensure we are procuring to planned deployment and minimizing Excess and Obsolescence (E&O).  
• Lead cross-functional projects to identify opportunities to drive efficiency (value identification) and report on progress to help business team achieve the goal efficiency/cost savings (value capture). 
• Support business case reviews for technology transitions and warranty negotiations. Support GEO expansion efforts for network team.