Accounting system admin, Google Fixed Assets

Minimum qualifications:

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

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's in MBA or MSA, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• Certification in Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
  
• Excellent computer skills with experience in SQL, Data analytics, BI tools, Google-sheets and SAP ERP.
  
• Excellent database experience in SQL coding across standard commercial databases (e.g Oracle, MySQL etc.).
  
• Experience managing project planning, status reporting, timeline estimation, issue tracking, meeting facilitation, and project documentation.

Ability to propose next steps and roadblock solutions and anticipate questions and challenges early, manage time, and follow work plans.

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.

As an Accounting system admin, you will find innovative ways to manage our complex set of transactions. As System Admin on the team you will be focused on maintaining our fixed assets, inventory or projects systems sub-ledgers, working on feature requests, bug resolution and other enhancements to improve the productivity of the team.

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

• Provide support on Fixed Assets, Inventory or Projects sub-ledgers for new entity set ups, maintenance and performance improvements and test system improvements.
  
• Prioritize project requests according to risk and efficiency outcomes; complete projects (including all hypotheses/analysis/documentation controls) in a consistent manner.
  
• Scale Awareness and Considerationprocesses such as month end close and fixed assets management by implementing robust automation solutions.
  
• Design and implement creative risk mitigation solutions to complex business problems leveraging automation and process improvements.