Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Engineering or Operations, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in management consulting, or an operations-related field or 2 years of experience with an advanced degree.
Preferred qualifications:
- 3 years of experience with accounting or finance Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and business processes and the system controls.
- Experience with an external service provider in operations, source-to-pay, or a related field.
- Experience with data analysis with the ability to present insights with data.
- Ability to manage escalations and balancing business and technical risks.
- Excellent process design, project management, and problem-solving 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.The Finance Operations team manages Google's cash transactions on a global basis and ensures that Google's incoming and outgoing cash processes are controlled. We face unique opportunities in scaling varied businesses while enabling product and services teams to grow at an unprecedented pace.In this role, you will find ways to transform the operations. You will be making processes more efficient. You will work to ensure the level of quality of operations and minimize operational risk.
Responsibilities
- Manage the company’s global supplier enrollment, Purchase Order (PO) creation, invoicing, and payment operations executed by external service provider partner in onshore and offshore centers to deliver process excellence focusing on efficiency, quality, controls, and compliance to local regulations.
- Analyze datasets to identify, prioritize, and address risks and opportunities; drive standardization and improvement.
- Identify, implement, and measure process improvements that enhance and optimize the control environment and processes.
- Partner with business and Finance teams to identify and gather business requirements, design solutions, and implement end-to-end process improvements.
- Help to create integrated system requirements, set priorities, plan constraints and dependencies, define timelines, allocate resources, write functional and test specifications, evaluate design alternatives and implications on functionality, effort, performance and operations, and drive projects to completion.
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