Senior Financial Analyst, Google Cloud Security, Product Finance

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 7 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function, or an advanced degree.
  
• Experience with fullcycle FP&A function, including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and financial modeling within a multinational company setting.

Preferred qualifications:

• Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure with working knowledge of the cybersecurity product industry.
• Advanced analytical skills, including expertise with SQL, large datasets, data visualization tools and integrated financial systems.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence VPs across engineering, product, and sales.
• Data driven thought leadership to generate and communicate insights including the "so what" to a wide range of stakeholders including financial leadership and technical management teams.

About the job

In Google Cloud security product finance, our mission is to support our VP/General Managers (GMs) leading the development of Google Cloud’s strategic security product portfolio. We integrate with multiple organizations whose mission is to develop security products to become the world’s most trusted security partner. We work directly with engineering, product management and product operations organizations who are responsible for developing these products in a fiercely engaged 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 ensure our partners deliver these critical products while managing long range planning, product pricing strategies, product investments and profitability from top line to bottom line.

In this role, you will be part of the finance team supporting the Google Unified Security and Threat Operations (GUSTO) organization as well as the cloud foundations security product organization. You will be responsible for driving key elements of our Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) processes, including budgeting, forecasting, planning, and reporting. In addition, you will partner with executive product management, engineering, and operations team leaders to support scaling and optimizing this critical and strategic business within the cloud. You will build financial models to support unit cost analysis, deal modeling, resource efficiency planning and goal setting. Furthermore, you will work with our business planning organization and product organization to support new pricing/product introductions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering and product leadership to evaluate long-term financial plans, investment strategies, and new technology and product launches. Partner with business and finance stakeholders to manage the business unit Profit and Loss (P&L).
• Lead product financial planning, cost forecasting, P&L reporting, and cost allocation processes. Lead automation efforts to 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 (KPIs) to oversee the business on a monthly, quarterly and multi-year basis.
• Manage large complex data sets and solve difficult, non-routine analysis problems through the application of advanced analytics methods as needed to develop easy to understand financial models with multiple scenarios for evaluating deals and decisions.