Product Finance Analyst - Cloud Security

Product Finance Analyst, Google Cloud Security

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.
• Experience executing full-cycle FP&A functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience leading cross-functional project teams through strong problem-framing and problem-structuring skills and project management skills.
• Expertise with SQL and data visualization tools.
• Ability to communicate insights and narratives to a wide range of stakeholders including financial leadership and technical management teams.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Excellent analytical and quantitative modeling skills.

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 Google Cloud Security finance, our mission is to support our VP/GMs leading the development of Google Cloud’s strategic security portfolio. We partner with an organization whose mission is to develop our security products in order to be a trusted security partner in the AI era. We partner directly with our engineering, product management and product operations organizations who are responsible for developing these products in a competitive market. Google Cloud’s Security products span from prevention to active defense to ensure our customers and partners are secure in the agentic era. We help our partners deliver these critical products while managing profitability from top line to bottom line.In Google Cloud Security finance, our mission is to support our VP/GMs leading the development of Google Cloud’s strategic security portfolio. We partner with an organization whose mission is to develop our security products in order to be a trusted security partner in the AI era. We partner directly with our engineering, product management and product operations organizations who are responsible for developing these products in a competitive market. Google Cloud’s Security products span from prevention to active defense to ensure our customers and partners are secure in the agentic era. We help our partners deliver these critical products while managing profitability from top line to bottom line.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering and product leadership to evaluate long-term financial plan, investment strategies, and new technology and product launches.
• Contribute to financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and allocation processes as well as automate and scale financial processes.
• Drive actionable analyses and recommendations for investment prioritization, resource optimization and efficiency improvements.
• Apply strong business judgment to develop a wide variety of reporting, Analytic tools and key performance indicators and to construct a deep understanding of how to optimize infrastructure cost and to guide business decisions.
• Partner with business and finance stakeholders on overall P&L management.

Experience Level

Mid Level