Manager, Technical Infrastructure Accounting Advisory and Deals

Google accountants are a savvy bunch who handle the core accounting responsibilities at Google. You know your accounting principles and the full accounting process end to end. You'll advise on financial reports required by governmental regulations, and review, analyze, and interpret financial and budgetary reports. Every day is a new challenge, and you're continually looking for ways to help our team become more efficient and effective. A team player at heart, you collaborate with our global team, advocate best practices and pitch in where needed. You move fast while keeping your attention to detail, and you tap into your problem-solving skills to support business objectives.

You'll lead an accounting process from end-to-end. Other responsibilities include reconciling balance sheets and P&L accounts, and providing supplementary financial information for internal and external reports.

The Manager, Accounting Deal Review and Advisory will be responsible for establishing an agreement review intake process and collaborating across Acquire to Retire (A2R) and Technical Accounting to provide advisory and agreement review services to our Technical Infrastructure business partners.

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

• Maintain a central agreement repository, coordinating agreement review updates to executive finance leadership.
• Research complex accounting issues, provide accounting consultation to business partners, and manage processes around internal documentation of accounting assessments for First of a Kind agreements.
• Assist in facilitating proper implementation of new accounting standards, disseminate information on current accounting topics and recent developments affecting Alphabet.
• Assist development of accounting policies and positions and assist in ongoing policy documentation maintenance.
• Use program/project management knowledge to run projects with effective communication to guide and influence others, including colleagues in areas outside of finance.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Chartered Accountant (CA).
• 10 years of experience in accounting or a related function, or 8 years with with an advanced degree in accounting, business, or finance.
  
• Demonstrated experience with U.S. GAAP specifically in the areas of Long-lived Assets (ASC 360), Lease Accounting (ASC 842), and Consolidation (ASC 810) in a public accounting or multinational company setting.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience acting as a primary architect for financial governance on innovative, non-standard infrastructure or energy projects.
• Ability to have a collaborative style and work with cross-functional and international teams.
  
• Ability to have strong attention to detail, organizational skills and focus on continuous improvement.
  
• Excellent communication skills with a proven track record of presenting technical accounting findings to senior management.