Finance Manager, Cloud Finance Emerging Business

Role Overview

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.

The Cloud Finance Emerging Business team is at the center of Google Cloud’s exciting new initiatives. We lead new business activity within Cloud, ensuring the right foundation and structure are established across contracting, financial operations, and financial planning so our long-term financial goals are achieved. As a key partner to Treasury, Accounting, Legal, TI, and Cloud partner organizations, we provide the financial insight necessary to scale our global footprint and lead the AI revolution.

As a Finance Manager for Cloud Finance Emerging Business, you will help establish new businesses by enabling 3 core activities: (i) transactions, dealmaking, and negotiation, (ii) financial operations and business processes, and (iii) capital allocation and financial modeling. You will be at the center of cross-functional partnerships with Engineering, Supply Chain, Legal, and Finance teams such as Treasury and Accounting, optimizing resources and decision-making for across compute and data center capacity in a changing and dynamic business environment.

You will be part of a high-performing team responsible for end-to-end ownership of financial data and processes, driving plans for infrastructure. Your work will inform Cloud leadership and directly influence critical decisions, helping steer some of the work happening at Google.

Responsibilities

• Drive critical processes and negotiations related to transactions that enable emerging Cloud initiatives, developing financial structures to support new business activity.
• Lead discovery and design efforts to establish financial data systems and processes, collaborating with operational partners and the PMO team.
• Build and manage financial models unifying inputs from Finance, Demand Planning, Engineering, and Product for contract negotiations and long-term forecasts.
• Advise Cloud leadership on capital allocation decisions, factoring in margin impact, return on invested capital, free cash flow, and data center ramp forecasts.
• Author presentations and narratives for senior leadership, including updates on annual budgets, capacity, CapEx investments, and infrastructure strategy.

Requirements & Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or

another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 10 years of experience in financial planning and analysis, consulting,

or a related function, or an advanced degree.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience streamlining cross-functional activities into logical and replicable processes.
• Experience with financial modeling, large datasets, and integrated financial systems.
• Experience in transaction settings and navigating documentation across business, legal, and financial dimensions.
• Experience presenting to and communicating with leadership across Engineering, Product, and Sales.
• Knowledge of Cloud infrastructure, AI/ML hardware (GPUs/TPUs/custom silicon), and data center operations.

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