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Senior Financial Analyst

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Compensation
$141–205K/yr
Location
Chicago, IL
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Senior Financial Analyst partners with Google Cloud Product, Capacity, and Technical Infrastructure organizations to guide investment decisions. The role develops financial and cash-flow models, analyzes AI product economics, and supports infrastructure efficiency initiatives. The finance team advises Cloud leaders with financial, investigative, and strategic insight. The position is available in Sunnyvale, Chicago, or Kirkland.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Cloud Infrastructure, nice to haveAI/ML Hardware, nice to haveCross-Functional Planning, nice to haveFinancial Modeling, nice to haveCash Flow Analysis, nice to haveSQL, nice to haveLarge Datasets, nice to haveIntegrated Financial Systems, nice to haveCommunication, nice to haveInfluencing Executives, nice to haveEnglish, required

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Quantitative Field or Equivalent, required7 Years FP&a or Related Experience or 5 Years With Advanced Degree, requiredAdvanced Degree, required

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave

Full job description

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XIn accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

  • Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance

  • Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match

  • Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment

  • Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance

  • Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks

  • Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks

  • Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA .

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.

  • 7 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function, or 5 years with a relevant advanced degree.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Deep knowledge of Cloud infrastructure, AI/ML hardware (GPUs/custom silicon).

  • Proven track record of streamlining complex, cross-functional planning cycles and building "single source of truth" models for complex and capital intensive infrastructure planning mechanisms.

  • Ability to balance immediate free cash flow maximization with long-term strategic priorities in a fast-paced, unstructured environment.

  • Advanced investigative skills, including experience with SQL, large datasets, and integrated financial systems.

  • Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence Directors and VPs across Engineering, Product, Strategy.

About the job

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

Cloud is a strategic priority for Google. We develop groundbreaking cloud solutions, including Google Cloud Platform and Google Workspace, to enable our clients’ digital transformation.

Our Finance team ensures that Cloud Product, Capacity and TI organizations make sound financial decisions for investments in the Cloud business. We are an important partner and independent advisor to the Cloud leaders, providing them financial, investigative and strategic insight.

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: $141000 - $205000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Work alongside Capacity, TI and DC planning to anticipate capacity constraints and implement efficiency gains that improve unit economics and overall Profit and Loss (P&L).

  • Develop robust P&L and Margin models to articulate margin drivers to the executive leadership.

  • Develop NPV and cash flow models to evaluate profitability for future NPI platforms and benchmark against other competitive products.

  • Partner with Engineering, TI, and PM to analyze the performance and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for AI Product SKUs, incorporating these insights into customer proposals.

  • Partner with Cloud Product, Capacity and Engineering on various efficiency initiatives to utilize infra and develop next year efficiency targets

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How this job compares

Set against the 6,133 open Financial Analyst jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$141–205K/yr
  • Illinois median$82–120K/yr149 salary ranges
  • US median$85–131K/yr4,104 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $173K, is 69% above the Illinois median midpoint ($102K) — in the top quarter of Financial Analyst salary ranges in Illinois.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 191 open Financial Analyst jobs in Illinois and 6,133 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Illinois
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Financial Analyst postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years at the median (4,800 postings).
Education
2,969 of the 6,133 open Financial Analyst jobs (48%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 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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