Senior Finance Manager, Energy and Sustainability

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. Excellent at working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to address big picture challenges.

You are both a manager and a mentor, providing financial leadership and analytical support to partners of the core Finance team as well as giving your own team the support they need to become financial experts. You'll keep management informed on key financial metrics and work to improve financial operation practices throughout your region.

This leadership role is part of the Data Center Acquisitions and Energy finance team and provides financial and analytical insights and business planning support to the Energy and Location strategy (ELS) team at Google. In this role, you will lead at a multi-billion dollar scale to dissect complex problems, deliver insights, and help leaders throughout the business make critical strategic and resource allocation decisions and balance risk management and controls.

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

• Track, analyze, and report on individual and portfolio-level renewable energy project costs, generation, availability, and profitability.
• Develop and maintain accurate forecasts and Month End Close of energy costs and generation from renewable energy projects. This includes utilizing developer generation forecasts, project development schedules, historical data, and other relevant inputs to support budgeting and planning efforts.
• Collaborate with Google's Finance and Accounting teams and other internal partners to provide essential renewable energy financial information for robust financial reporting.
• Support tooling and data initiatives aimed at scaling portfolio performance analytics. Develop and manage tools specifically designed to analyze contract performance.
• Work closely with third-party vendors to validate and analyze monthly settlements and energy invoices for the renewable energy portfolio.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 14 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), business strategy, management consulting, a related function, or 12 years of experience with an advanced degree.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree, MBA, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in Energy Finance (e.g., Utilities, Energy banking, Independent Power Producers).
• Experience building, developing and leading high performing team.
  
• Finance experience including long range planning, annual planning, financial reporting, business case review, cost management and executing automation efforts within a multinational company setting.