Financial Analyst, Cloud AI Capacity Planning

Job description

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. Working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to take on big picture challenges.

As someone who knows the workings of the core Finance team inside and out, you'll lead individual projects to transform planning, tracking and control processes. You'll provide senior level management with insightful recommendations, planning and reporting support.

We are the Gemini for Enterprise Product finance team that supports Google Cloud Platform (GCP)’s vast array of AI products including Gemini API, Gemini Enterprise Applications, Gemini Enterprise Solutions, Vertex Agent and Model Platforms, and other AI Solutions.

Our Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team supports the Product, Engineering, and Operations teams that build and sell GCP’s AI products. We manage the product Profit and Loss (P&Ls), including revenue, infrastructure expenses, payroll and other Operational Expenditure (OpEx). We are an integral partner and strategic financial advisers to the Cloud leadership team, advising on how to invest resources to grow a sustainable business.

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 capacity workflows for strategic projects (including third-party sources) and assist in forecasting demand to support long-range hardware, chip, data center, and power supply planning.
• Drive efficiency workflows and track key performance metrics for API serving to ensure optimal utilization of hardware resources.
• Partner with the Finance Manager to support the monthly Sales and Operations Planning process, focusing on the supply and demand management of critical infrastructure.
• Provide comprehensive financial analysis to support the consolidation of AI Solutions, ensuring a unified, cross-organizational view of financial performance.
• Partner closely with engineering and product teams to align technical roadmaps with financial constraints and Capital Expenditure (Capex) goals.

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 with data visualization tools and SQL for data analysis.
• Proficiency in financial modeling and spreadsheet tools (e.g., Google Sheets).
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders across finance and engineering.
• Interest in the infrastructure, data centers, or hardware capacity management.