Finance Program Manager, Global Finance Operations

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, effective and efficient. As a member of this team, you'll find innovative ways to manage our complex set of transactions. You'll make processes more efficient and scalable, work to ensure the highest level of quality of our operations, and proactively minimize operational risk. Externally, you collaborate with our extended workforce partners and internally, you will collaborate across the multiple areas of the Financial Operations team.

The Finance Program Manager role serves as a core strategic and operational lead within Global Finance Operations. This position oversees extended workforce service delivery, enforces governance frameworks, leads continuous process optimization, and ensures robust access compliance across outsourced financial operations.

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.

Responsibilities

• Lead extended workforce governance processes, Service Level Agreement (SLA) performance, and partner escalations while driving cross-functional strategy, worksite planning, and optimization initiatives.
• Manage the access provisioning process for external finance personnel, coordinate configurations, and resolve compliance issues in partnership with internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide commercial oversight of high-value professional services contracts to ensure favorable terms, operational compliance, and minimization of financial risk throughout the contract lifecycle.
• Manage the end-to-end financial process, including budgeting, forecasting, and actuals, in partnership with internal finance teams and vendors.
• Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives and system migrations, coordinate requirements across teams, and resolve programmatic escalations to maintain business continuity.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in management consulting or project management from a public accounting firm or multinational company, or 5 years of experience with an advanced degree in business, accounting, or finance.
• Experience managing extended workforce governance, SLA performance, and vendor transitions.
• Experience with technical program management, systems access, user provisioning, and Identity and Access Management (IAM) migrations.
• Experience managing budgets and cross-functional projects.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree, MBA, or equivalent advanced training in Finance.
• Experience with financial modeling, including budget planning, run-rate projections, and variable expense modeling.
• Experience administering vendor management tools and managing Statement of Work (SOW) workflows.
• Experience implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotic Process Automation (RPA), and automation technologies within a financial context.