Senior Finance Analyst, Capacity Planning

Google Google · Big Tech · Kirkland, WA +1

This role is for a Senior Finance Analyst focused on capacity planning for Google Cloud Platform, which supports AI/ML workloads. The analyst will provide financial recommendations, manage cost guardrails, model scenarios for supply-demand matching, and forecast business for new regions. The role requires experience in financial planning and analysis, modeling in capital-intensive industries, and programming skills like SQL.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with cross-functional finance, planning, and product teams to provide "Go/No-Go" recommendations for data center expansions and procurement.
  2. Manage the evolution of data center cost guardrails and analyze lease agreement structures to align with profit and loss health and workload-specific requirements.
  3. Collaborate with capacity planning to model scenarios for location-specific supply-demand matching and recommend deployment paths.
  4. Direct the 5-year power and business forecasting for new regions, integrating inputs from go-to-market (GTM), data science, and operations.
  5. Present financial narratives, capital expenditure/operating expenditure (CapEx/OpEx) efficiency opportunities, and roadmaps to stakeholders across cloud and technical infrastructure leadership.

Skills

Required

  • financial planning and analysis (FP&A)
  • consulting
  • budgeting
  • forecasting
  • variance analysis
  • modeling
  • financial modeling
  • SQL

Nice to have

  • spend management
  • budget planning cycles
  • profit and loss management
  • cloud infrastructure
  • data center knowledge
  • quantitative skills
  • written skills
  • presentation skills