Lead Financial Analyst

Financial Analysts ensure that Google makes sound financial decisions. Our team of Financial Analysts foster the financial health of our organization by partnering closely with our various functions, tracking performance metrics and creating financial models. Our Financial Analysts are up to date with the latest economic trends and apply knowledge around rates of return, depreciations, working capital requirements and investment performance to the projects at hand. As a Financial Analyst, you are called upon to build complex scenarios analyses that serve as the basis for recommendations that leaders of the business draw from to make critical strategic decisions. A master juggler working on multiple projects at a time, you maintain a consistently high level of attention to detail while finding creative ways to tackle financial challenges.

Responsibilities:
Finance partner for all SEEMEA Sales Finance activity. You will work closely with a budget planner and other Finance teams in SEEMEA.
Provide analytical input into the budgeting process for the SEEMEA Sales Finance budget, ensuring that investment is allocated optimally across countries, channels and products.
Maintenance and continuous improvement of existing reports while developing and scaling new frameworks for tracking KPIs and Return on Investment of Sales activity.
Decision support and analysis projects for both the SEEMEA Sales Finance team and as part of the global Sales Finance team.

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelors degree with emphasis in a quantitative discipline such as finance, economics, statistics, or engineering. In lieu of degree, relevant skills or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications:
Masters degree (MBA or MA).
Solid analytical work experience in high data volume environments, preferably in software, internet, media or telecoms industries. Consulting experience a plus.
Desire to attack large, complex problems and an interest in finding new ways to think about difficult finance and business questions and a knowledge of industrial grade IS architectures and reporting tools. Superior MS Office (in particular Excel) skills.
Strong database experience including proficiency in SQL coding across standard relational environments (e.g Oracle, Teradata, MS Access, etc.) with software programming experience and/or skill with scripting languages and experience on large distributed data systems
Attention to detail, organized and thorough, with desire for continuous improvements.
Excellent analytical, communication and interpersonal skills.Proven project management capabilities with ability to manage tasks to deadline in the face of ambiguity.

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