Business Analyst, Planning and Analytics, Google Cloud

Minimum Qualifications:

• 3 years of experience in data analysis, modelling, SQL, and presentation development.
• Experience managing data and reporting in spreadsheets, and data visualization in presentations.
• Experience working cross-functionally and supporting internal stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with global delivery.
• Experience executing large transformation initiatives.
• Experience delivering results through cross-functional interaction with sales, marketing, finance, product development, and other functions.
• Ability to deliver business transformation programs in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills, and keen ability to influence cross-functionally.

About the Job

The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business — all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are engineered for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers — developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies — see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes using technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.

As a Business Analyst, you will be instrumental in enabling the execution of the cloud Vendor Management Office (VMO) strategy. You will support the strategy enablement functional leads in demand planning, budget analysis, location and vendor evaluations, selections, and conducting market research to deliver critical insights and intel to VMO and business teams.

You will work with functional teams across support, sales, learning services, and engineering to map the current state assess future demand, develop budget forecasts and analysis to help the VMO plan effective vendor engagement, fulfilment of business requirements.

Google Cloud accelerates organizations’ ability to digitally transform their business with the best infrastructure, platform, industry solutions and expertise. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology – all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and rank vendor performance evaluation, benchmark, and rank vendor performance reliably, and manage the onboarding of vendor resources.
• Conduct operational and financial analysis (i.e. on spend analytics, budget to plan tracking, and Global Ads Partnerships (GAP) analysis).
• Conduct primary and secondary external market research around vendor capabilities, location strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats (SWOTs), and cost benchmarks.
• Engage with business teams to map temp to vendor transition opportunities to minimize co-employment risks.
• Map vendor footprint and identify vendor consolidation opportunities, and audit compliance to invoicing, PO, and contractual terms.