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.
As a part of the YouTube Finance team, you will be a part of the broader Strategy, Analytics, and Finance team (SAF) whose mission is to make YouTube commercially sustainable and more valuable by identifying and steering the business towards the biggest opportunities, guiding the organization to make the best possible decisions, and enabling effective implementation with proactive and trusted risk management.
In this role, you will build a data layer spanning product silos to deliver actionable financial insights to the product-specific finance leads. You will define and model the economics of intersecting value streams such as Live Streaming, Shopping, and Generative AI, transforming ambiguous questions into structured financial analyses. You will be a well-rounded performer in a high-energy growth environment, bringing excellent data analysis skills, including SQL proficiency and modeling expertise, performing in-depth search into underlying assumptions while recommending efficient, scalable approaches.
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 $117,000-$167,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. 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
- Design, develop, and maintain a unified data layer to standardize key metrics across emerging product areas (e.g., Shorts, Shopping, Generative AI) and other cross-product initiatives.
- Analyze and model the financial impact of evolving creator monetization structures.
- Partner with Finance Leads on ad hoc, high-priority projects that address fundamental business questions.
- Drive the agenda for ongoing support processes such as monthly spend reporting, incentive fund guardrails and annual planning for growth investments.
- Define the financial value of various launches across product verticals.
Qualifications
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 in management consulting, investment banking, finance, corporate strategy or similar environment.
- Experience with SQL or similar database querying languages and database schema.
- Ability to self-start in an unstructured environment, navigate ambiguity, and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Excellent problem-solving, modeling, and analysis skills, combined with impeccable business judgment and the ability to communicate with an executive management team.