Cloud Finance Optimization Business Analyst
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in management consulting, or project management from a public accounting firm or multi-national company.
- 2 years of experience conducting in depth data analysis.
- Experience supporting or leading cross-functional projects and identifying process improvements.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience leading process improvement projects.
- SAP/S4 HANA transformation experience.
- Data Analysis skills, experience applying statistical methods, SQL, dashboard design.
- Demonstrated understanding of ERP systems (such as Oracle, SAP, S4 Hana) standard Source-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, Financials & Payroll business processes.
- Demonstrated Project Management skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks in a dynamic environment.
About the job
Business Analysts ensure that Google makes effective business and operational decisions. As a Business Analyst, your work, whether it's modeling business scenarios, tracking performance metrics or building metrics that matter, is used by our leaders to make strategic company decisions. Working on multiple projects at a time, you'll focus on the details while finding creative ways to take on big picture challenges. You'll lead individual projects to transform planning, tracking and control processes, as well as provide executive level management with insightful recommendations, planning and reporting support.
In this role, you will provide assurance to leadership that our information and processes are effective, with high coverage, accurate and reliable outputs, and low error rates. You will subject activities to regular scrutiny, testing for control gaps and improving them to ensure their sufficiency in conforming to policy requirements and performance obligations. You will help modernize the workflows that have served us well but have fallen behind, designing and implementing new system and platform requirements that create clear ownership, appropriate separations of duty, and transparent authorization of transactions.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $107,000-$153,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Cloud business functions to understand manual and automated transaction flows. Develop and maintain detailed process maps of Cloud Lead to Report, using tools such as Visio, Lucidchart, or similar.
- Identify variations, inefficiencies, and control gaps in current processes. Design, quantify and recommend improvements in business processes to enhance efficiency, reduce complexity, increase standardization, and better manage risk.
- Provide input into Finance requirements and user journeys for systems improvement work based on current and desired process flows.
- Support internal and external testing of in-scope processes and controls to ensure adherence to Alphabet standards and timely remediation of observations.
- Prepare reports and presentations for management, summarizing findings from process improvement activities and data analyses.
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