Senior Financial Analyst, YouTube+

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.
• Experience executing full-cycle FP&A functions including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and modeling within a multinational company setting.
• Experience in data extraction and manipulation using SQL (e.g., joins, window functions, database integration).

Preferred qualifications:

• 8 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), corporate finance, strategic finance, business intelligence, or analytical consulting
• Demonstrable experience working in the digital advertising industry & knowledge of Google's advertising products (In particular YouTube)
• Experience in transforming data analyses via AI & LLM tools (e.g. Domo, Gemini CLI, Colab etc.).
• Ability to work with data to produce analysis, influencing decision making with numerical analysis and generating insights.

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.

Global Business Organization (GBO) Finance leaders ensure Google makes sound business decisions. We are hiring a Senior Finance Analyst to lead the strategic agenda for YouTube+ Ads within the EMEA Large Customer Sales (LCS) business-high-visibility growth engine.

As a Senior Financial Analyst for YouTube+, you will partner with Leaders in Go-to-Market (GTM) and LCS Leadership to drive the growth and strategy of our YouTube+ business. In this role, you will act as a strategic advisor, bridging the gap between finance, commercial structure, and sales partnerships. You will lead investigative assessments of business performance across YouTube+ for EMEA LCS, providing the operational clarity needed to optimize Google's investments.

You are an AI-Pioneer, who is highly investigative, with a knack for identifying trends and growth drivers in complex, multi-dimensional datasets. You will be comfortable with ambiguity and can synthesize sophisticated financial analyses into crisp, executive-ready insights and presentations. By building strong, collaborative relationships across regional and global teams, you will help align stakeholders and drive execution on strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end investigative framework for YouTube+, developing strategic insights to steer the EMEA LCS business.
• Build, scale, and maintain standardized driver frameworks, performance models, and customer-level analyses to surface actionable growth opportunities.
• Structure and communicate complex, ambiguous business performance issues to advise and challenge EMEA LCS leadership.
• Lead performance deep dives and executive updates, synthesizing massive datasets into brief, actionable narratives.
• Leverage AI finance tools to design and deploy AI-augmented agents that automate the interpretation of complex insights and transform decision-making.
  Design investigative innovations with a global-first mindset, building collaborative networks across GBO Finance, Product Finance, and go-to-market (GTM) to drive alignment and maintain data integrity.