Business Analyst, Cloud, Finance, Optimization - Google
Chicago, IL
About the Job
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience in management consulting, or project management from a public accounting firm or multi-national company.
- Experience leading multiple, cross-functional projects, identifying and implementing process improvements; including experience designing, implementing, and testing processes and controls for enterprise resource planning (ERP) transformation projects.
Preferred qualifications:
- Certification in Lean Six Sigma (Yellow, Green or Black Belt).
- 5 years of experience in business analysis, financial analysis, or process improvement, preferably in a public company.
- Experience in creating detailed process/systems/data flow maps using tools such as Visio, Lucidchart, or other process mapping software.
- Experience with data visualization tools such as Looker, Power BI, Tableau (pivot tables, charts).
- Ability to understand and document financial and operational workflows.
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.
In this role, you will make Cloud's financial and business processes faster, simpler, and safer. You will provide assurance to leadership that Google's information and processes are effective, with high coverage, accurate and reliable outputs, and low error rates. You will subject activities to regular scrutiny, testing for control gaps and improving them to ensure their sufficiency in conforming to policy requirements and performance obligations. You will modernize the workflows that have served us well but have fallen behind, designing and implementing new system and platform requirements that create clear ownership, appropriate separations of duty, and transparent authorization of transactions.
You will map Cloud’s highly complex business process and system architecture to facilitate transformational change. Cloud is a detailed, technocratic, and ever-evolving business you will understand how Finance and others currently operate within it, and see the bigger picture to standardize models and activities, reduce process variations, improve reporting, and automate manual work. You will design, build and evaluate procedures that support the day to day running of the Cloud business.
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.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $129,000-$191,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. 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.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the Cloud team for business functions to understand manual and automated transaction flows. Develop and maintain detailed process maps of Cloud Lead to Report, using tools such as Visio, Lucidchart, or similar.
- Identify complexities, variations, inefficiencies, and control gaps in current processes. Design, quantify and recommend improvements in business processes to enhance efficiency, reduce complexity, increase standardization, and manage risk.
- Provide input to the Finance team on requirements and user journeys for systems improvement work based on current and desired process flows.
- Support internal and external testing of in-scope processes and controls to ensure adherence to Alphabet standards and timely remediation of observations.
- Prepare reports and presentations for management, summarizing findings from process improvement activities and data analysis.
