Cloud Workforce Planning Analyst

Role Overview

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Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain financial models to underpin business planning and critical decision-making, encompassing forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, workforce planning, allocation analysis, and scenario modeling.
• Drive Google Cloud Headcount (HC) and Payroll cost planning and forecasting, ensuring seamless partnership, transparency, and execution across organizations to drive deep fiscal accountability.
• Oversee central analytics and provide subject matter expertise for Headcount and Payroll at enterprise scale, delivering actionable insights and planning guidance to business partners.
• Lead the orchestration of complex planning cycles, including Long Range Planning (LRP) and the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), establishing timelines, templates, and consolidation models to ensure alignment across multiple stakeholders.
• Support productivity analysis and modeling across GTM and Engineering, leveraging key productivity metrics (e.g., CAC payback, R&D spend) to optimize global talent distribution and evaluate internal AI efficiency gains.

Requirements & Qualifications

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.
• Experience executing full-cycle FP&A functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.
• Experience with programming (i.e. SQL).

Preferred qualifications:

• 7 years of financial planning and analysis, corporate finance, strategy, or workforce planning experience, with expertise managing enterprise-scale goals payroll budgets and large global workforces.
• Experience designing complex workforce strategies, structuring large headcount datasets, and delivering talent recommendations to executives.
• Experience developing strategies in a changing engaged environments with impeccable business judgment for resource allocation.
• Experience with building data infrastructure (e.g., designing data schemas, building pipelines, implementing scalable monitoring) and implementing reporting solutions (SQL, PLX, Looker, Tableau).
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work cross-functionally across a wide variety of departments, take complete project ownership, set clear objectives, and drive results.

Compensation & Benefits

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.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $116000 - $166000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Application Instructions

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Note: In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:Health, dental, vision, life, disability insuranceRetirement Benefits: 401(k) with company matchPaid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employmentSick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeksBaby Bonding Leave: 18 weeksHolidays: 13 paid days per year