Financial Analyst, Knowledge and Information
Job Overview
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Date PostedApril 13, 2026
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Job Description
2026-04-08T22:29:32.829Z
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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:
- Experience executing full-cycle FP&A functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.
- Ability to work with data to produce analysis, influencing decision making with numerical analysis and generating insights.
- Ability to stay organized, strategically focused, detail oriented, and able to address ambiguity in a constantly evolving environment.
- Ability to take ownership, confidence to interact with all levels, set objectives, drive results, and be a team player.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work with a wide variety of stakeholders.
About the job
As a part of the Geo, Revenue, Ads, Search (GRAS) Strategy and Operations (S&O) team, the central finance team that partners with two of Alphabet's largest organizations, Global Business Organization (GBO) and Knowledge and Information (the product organization that includes Ads & Commerce, Search, Geo, and Education), you will manage a broad set of responsibilities, including annual planning, opex management, headcount and payroll reporting, Profit and Loss (P&L) management and analytics, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) data infra, horizontal product area partnership, regulatory responses, and other ad hoc projects working with executives.
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
- Support the annual and long-range planning cycles centrally for K&I.
- Analyze financial data to proactively unlock insights, identify trends, uncover opportunities, and deliver insightful financial reporting and narratives to executive stakeholders.
- Execute core FP&A processes (e.g., forecasting, planning, variance analysis, etc.) to support the K&I organization.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including business Strategy and Operations (S&O) and product finance, corporate finance, and functional finance teams to ensure effective partnership.
- Support the development and execution of other business priorities, as needed.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.