Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 4 years of experience in accounting or a related function, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in Accounting, Business, or Finance.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Chartered Accountant (CA).
  
• Experience with commission systems and spreadsheet software.
• Experience managing project planning, status reporting, timeline estimation, issue tracking, meeting facilitation, and project documentation.
  
• Experience with United States GAAP and internal control best practices, including a solid understanding of accounting principles.
  
• Familiarity with general incentive commission workflows from contracting to payout SQL or Python skills.
  
• Ability to have strong attention to detail and focus on continuous improvement, with excellent organizational and problem solving skills.
  

Summary

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 4 years of experience in accounting or a related function, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in Accounting, Business, or Finance.
  

Description

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.

Google Controllers are a savvy bunch who handle the core accounting and compliance responsibilities at Google. As a member of this team, you know your accounting principles and the full financial process. You will advise on financial and accounting matters and will review, analyze, and interpret data for accounting and reporting. Every day is a new challenge, and you are continuously looking for ways to help our team get better at what we do, in the most efficient way possible.

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

• Be responsible for learning and analyzing a complex network of systems and reporting tools utilized to analyze and assess commissions and associated capitalization.
• Utilize analytical tools, including SQL scripts, to design and implement solutions that can scale, while identifying and escalating barriers to management. Independently navigate, pursue and achieve access to key data sources while maintaining professional skepticism around control reliance.
• Create exceptional detailed documentation for all processes and tasks with the expectation of keeping these up-to-date with an ever changing environment. Elevate steady-state manual processes to a semi-automated or automated scalable solution.
• Understand the existing control environment with the ability to further identify risks and effectively communicate and execute opportunities for improvements. Manage data consistency across various systems and be responsible for related IPE testing.