Senior Accountant, Google Payments

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.

As a key architect within the Global Revenue and Expense (GRX) Controllership, you will build exceptional reporting systems powering global growth. You will be at the forefront of financial innovation, scaling accounting solutions and pioneering AI-driven automation for the expense and payments controllership.

You will actively engineer the future of finance by designing robust data flows for zero-to-one product launches, accelerating and executing the next-generation month-end close processes, and modernizing risk governance frameworks. You will transform complex global workflows into high-speed, automated financial operations that directly accelerate Google's most strategic initiatives.

The Expense and Payments team partners with Product, Engineering, and other stakeholders to design and implement accounting and process enhancements across Google’s Payment's business. In this role, you will scale complex accounting solutions by designing internally developed and Engineering-supported solutions built for the future.

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

• Oversee end-to-end accounting processes for Google Payments under US GAAP, including complex global fee allocations and revenue/expense classifications across Ads, Cloud, and Hardware.
• Leverage SQL, AI, and workflow automation tools to modernize core accounting operations, eliminate manual tasks, and improve precision in global incentives and reporting.
• Collaborate with Engineering and cross-functional teams to design scalable finance infrastructure, implement robust internal controls, and mitigate operational and compliance risk.
• Execute end-to-end close cycles—including contract reviews, journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, and flux analyses—while delivering executive-ready reporting and audit support.
• Advise Product, Sales, and Operations on the accounting implications of new business models, zero-to-one product rollouts, and commercial contracts to ensure operational readiness.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Chartered Accountant (CA).
• 7 years of experience in accounting or a related function, or 5 years with an advanced degree in accounting, business, or finance.
  
• Experience in US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in a public accounting or multinational company setting.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in business recognition and expense classification (cost of sales, operating expense).
• Experience leveraging SQL, AI and other process automation to optimize process flows, reduce risk and power decision-making.
• Understanding of emerging financial technologies, with the ability to automate the standard to focus on the strategic.
• Ability to understand complex systems, and to give attention to details, and to work with minimal guidance in a team environment.
• Excellent business skills, with the ability to recognize and present data.
• Excellent communication, project management, organizational, investigative and quantitative skills.