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Google Hiring for Financial Analyst, Real Estate and Workplace Services Job at London, England Full Time
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
- Experience in management consulting, real estate, investment banking, finance, or similar environment
- Experience in financial planning and analysis, financial modeling, planning, forecasting, budgeting, and/or project management
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience at a high-growth multinational organization, in management consulting, real estate, investment banking, finance, or similar environment
- Experience with process improvement
- Ability to take initiative and work in ambiguous environments
- Ability to motivate colleagues and collaborate effectively to influence executive leadership
- Ability to design and build business performance and financial management dashboards.
- Excellent communication and data visualization 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.
Our Real Estate and Workplace Services (REWS) Finance team partners with REWS teams across regions, helping them operate our building, make investment decisions, plan, forecast, and manage operating and capital expenses.
In this role, you will help makes financial decisions. Your work is used by our leaders to make strategic decisions. You will stay up-to-date with the latest economic and industry trends and apply knowledge around rates of return and investment performance to projects.
You will work with the Real Estate team to plan, manage, analyze, and make investment decisions to support Googlers around the world.
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
- Partner with the Real Estate team to evaluate building design and operating opportunities, helping maximize productivity of key investments. Present recommendations to executive level audiences.
- Manage budgets, including approvals and process improvements.
- Lead financial planning, forecasting, and reporting leveraging Google’s data infrastructure and technical tools (e.g., dashboards, SQL, SAP, etc.).
- Drive analysis to provide insight and recommendations that inform business decisions.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Real Estate team, finance, business operations, accounting, and engineering to deliver strategic projects.
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.