
Accountant, Spend Controllership
Mountain View, CAJob$105–151K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Job overview
The Accountant, Spend Controllership role leads accounting processes end to end, supports financial reporting, and helps improve the efficiency of Google’s accounting operations. The accountant reconciles balance sheet and P&L accounts, provides financial information for reports, and works with global teams. The role also addresses financial risks, supports audit requests, and uses data to monitor business performance and identify insights.
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Accountant, Spend Controllership
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XNote: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA .
Minimum qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance, or equivalent practical experience.
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4 years of experience in accounting or a related function, or 1 year with an advanced degree in accounting, business, or finance.
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Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Chartered Accountant (CA).
Preferred qualifications:
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Experience managing project planning, status reporting, timeline estimation, issue tracking, meeting facilitation, and project documentation.
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Ability to propose next steps and roadblock solutions and anticipate questions and challenges early, manage time, and follow work plans.
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Ability to have strong attention to detail, organizational skills and focus on continuous improvement.
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Ability to have a collaborative style and work with cross-functional and international teams.
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Excellent problem solving skills and ability to communicate effectively with executive management.
About the job
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 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.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $105000 - $151000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .
Responsibilities
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Identify and mitigate financial risks associated with new changes to existing processes.
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Provide financial records and supporting documentation to auditors, and assist with the development of process cycle memorandums and procedural walk-throughs.
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Use data to extract meaningful insights and monitor the performance of different areas of a business.
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Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See alsoGoogle's EEO Policy (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/eeo/) ,Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal (https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf) ,Belonging at Google (https://about.google/belonging/) , andHow we hire (https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/) .
If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing ourAccommodations for Applicants form (https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2) .
Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.
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Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCP_EEO_Post.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.
How this job compares
Set against the 3,333 open Accountant jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$105–151K/yr
- California median$100–133K/yr162 salary ranges
- US median$75–100K/yr970 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $128K, is 9% above the California median midpoint ($118K) — in the middle half of Accountant salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 339 open Accountant jobs in California and 3,333 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Robert Half Finance & Accounting81 open
- Robert Half Accountemps40 open
- SpaceX15 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Accountant postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 2,180 postings).
- Education
- 1,817 of the 3,333 open Accountant jobs (55%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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