Devices and Services Analyst, Finance, Pixel Product Engineering

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 3 years of experience in an analytical role within a business finance or commercial function.

• Ability to speak and write in English and Mandarin Chinese fluently.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in consulting, investment banking, telecommunications, or consumer electronics.
• Experience in analytics, financial modeling, financial planning and analysis, and/or project management with demonstrated process improvement.
• Knowledge of analytical tools such as SQL, SAP BPC, Python, R, or other coding experience.
• Understanding of accounting and finance operations.
• Ability to self-initiate and self-direct work in a fast-paced environment, including dealing with ambiguity.
• Problem-solving and business acumen skills, including ability to multi-task, apply initiatives, and use creativity on projects.

About the job

The Finance Operations team manages Google's cash transactions on a global basis and ensures that Google's incoming and outgoing cash processes are controlled, effective and efficient. As a member of this team, you'll find innovative ways to manage our complex set of transactions. You'll make processes more efficient and scalable, work to ensure the highest level of quality of our operations, and proactively minimize operational risk. Externally, you collaborate with our extended workforce partners and internally, you will collaborate across the multiple areas of the Financial Operations team.

At Google, data drives all of our decision-making. As part of the APAC Finance team you will use data to inform strategic investments and product decisions across the company. You will develop analysis and insights to help business partners understand product performance, and the effectiveness of campaigns to provide recommendations to shape their investment decisions.

In this role, you will work on Google’s Devices and Services (e.g., Pixel, Home, and more). You will be plugged into framing the strategic and competitive position on executive-level deliverables such as planning, goal setting, business sases, OPEX, and monthly business reviews. You will also partner with executive leaders across Finance, Engineering, and Product.

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

• Lead monthly OPEX reporting for APAC Devices and Services organization across APAC and Americas.
• Partner cross-functionally to understand trends, variance drivers, and inform forecast updates.
• Manage and drive efficiency in core finance processes such as profit and loss, financial and strategic planning, performance reporting, and program spend reviews. 
• Inform Economics and Risk Management of agreements, including reviewing contract terms and partnering with other Finance functions as needed.
• Develop tools and data infrastructure to measure the effectiveness of different initiatives for a range of audiences, including executives.

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