12 Oct 2021

Full Time Financial Accountant

for Google – Sydney

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Job Description

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Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of accounting experience in public accounting or a multinational high-tech company, with working experience with IFRS across Asia Pacific markets.
CPA/CA or other professional accounting accreditation.
Authorization to work in Australia.

Preferred qualifications:

Ability to effectively communicate in both English and Mandarin, collaborate with a diverse range of people and job functions.
Experience with SQL, and a passion for driving business decisions by analyzing large and complex data sets.
Working experience with ASC 606 implementation and revenue recognition.
Excellent communication and project management skills, with the ability to work with minimal guidance and in a team environment.
Demonstrated experience in managing process improvement.

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.

This role will be shaping Google’s Ads incentive programs to be compliant, efficient, flexible, and relevant. The role will contribute to the design of the end-to-end life cycle of incentive programs from program design to incentive delivery, and everything in between.

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

Design, implement and manage global processes for the accounting of ads incentives, including contra-revenue accruals, deferred revenue, and the related balance sheet reconciliations.
Partner with engineering and other cross-functional business partners to define, establish and implement accounting systems, processes and procedures. Review processes and implement controls to ensure mitigated risk for Google.
Perform month-end close processes, including agreement review, processing payments and preparing/posting journal entries. Prepare and present financials to management and support with any ad-hoc requests from cross-functional teams.
Identify opportunities and implement programs to centralize, eliminate, automate or outsource activities. Work with providers to outsource established or mature processes and manage ongoing activities.
Work through accounting implications and confirm we can operationally support business agreements. Provide accounting guidance to Sales, Product and other cross-functional teams.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.