Financial Analyst, Network Strategic Planning

This position is based in Mountain View, CA.

The area: Operations and IT, Global Infrastructure

When we're not planning and designing our next secret data center, we focus on selecting, negotiating for and acquiring the space, power and networks to expand Google's global reach. Our team works closely with strategic vendors worldwide to support the growth of Google's products and services and to provide the infrastructure that will take the company to the next level.

The role: Financial Analyst, Network Strategic Planning

You will drive cross-functional projects, optimizing of one of the world's most impressive network infrastructures. You will develop fundamental models for network scaling and resource planning strategies. You will collaborate with all organizational levels to optimize planning, forecast, and manage the growth of Google's network capacity around the globe. You will be expected to think critically and strategically about Google as a bandwidth and networking business, and absorb and process insane amounts of technical background and data while guiding the build on one of the most impressive network infrastructures in the world. You will be expected to be equally comfortable proposing financial strategies to the CFO or discussing the technical and financial trade-offs involved in network design and deployment strategies. You will develop an innate understanding of the Google network and underlying economic fundamentals enabling you to quantify and guide the team between reducing operating costs and enabling agility for the business.