Finance Manager, Cloud Capacity Finance

Google Google · Big Tech · Kirkland, WA +3

Finance Manager for Google Cloud Platform, focusing on capacity and power planning. This role supports strategic investment decisions, data center planning, and long-range financial strategy for GCP's infrastructure, partnering with various teams including ML, Supply Planning, and Technical Infra finance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with TI (Infrastructure) Finance, Demand and Supply Planning, Supply Strategy and Portfolio Planning, and Cloud Expansion Product to provide Go vs No-Go recommendations to data center lease structuring, expansions and procurement. Work with supply and capacity planning to understand our location specific supply vs demand matching (SDM), design scenarios, and provide an appropriate deployment recommendation.
  2. Develop metrics on power and data center efficiency.
  3. Establish mechanisms around data center expansion approvals and strategy.
  4. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders in GTM, Capacity Planning, ML teams, Supply Planning, Operations Data Science, and Technical Infra finance to develop a long-term power plan and strategy, including sources of power supply and managing power supply vs. demand at a metro-level.
  5. Perfrom executive communication and present results and recommendations to senior stakeholders across Cloud Finance, TI Finance, Capacity Planning, and Product.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience in Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function, or an advanced degree.
  • Experience executing full-cycle FP&A functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.

Nice to have

  • Experience in spend management, budget planning cycles, and P&L management.
  • Experience presenting to senior management.
  • Knowledge of the Cloud Infrastructure, specifically self-built and third-party data center.
  • Ability to self-direct in an unstructured, fast-paced environment and remain comfortable with ambiguity.
  • Exceptional quantitative, written, and presentation skills.

What the JD emphasized

  • long-term cloud strategy
  • long-term power plan and strategy