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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 9 years of relevant experience in finance, management consulting, corporate strategy or similar environment, including FP&A and project management experience.
Preferred qualifications:
- CPA, CFA, MBA or relevant advanced degree.
- Track record of successful performance in prior role(s), with increasing levels of responsibility. Track record of successfully managing and influencing complex cross-functional initiatives.
- Ability to take charge, set objectives, drive to results while building long-term relationships across organizational boundaries with all levels of seniority.
- Ability to deliver high-quality projects and and work well in ambiguity and change.
- High level of intellectual curiosity: a passion for understanding and explaining.
- Excellent attention to detail, leadership, and people skills.
About the job
Within YouTube Global Scaled Operations (GSO) you will contribute strategic leadership and experience modeling agreements for extended or outsourced workforces, working across Operational Expenditure, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), People Management, P&L, and outsourced agreements to help us build new functions.
The YouTube GSO team develops practical and innovative ways to address some of the most complex business challenges to keep YouTube thriving. We anticipate how decisions are made, persistently explore and uncover the business needs of our key clients, and understand how our range of product and service offerings can enable their business success. We also lead the global vendor strategy across all organizations, manage business risks, ensure we have great contracts and deliver amazing client experiences for YouTube’s customers and partners. Using influencing and relationship-building skills, we provide YouTube-caliber client service, legal guidance, research, and market analysis.
As a Cost Program Manager, you will contribute excellent analytical and strategic thinking skills to drive our business forward. This is an exciting role that provides full finance support to senior business partners offers significant scope for leadership of individual projects that drive growth. In this role, you will work in close partnership with highly talented finance and business colleagues from across the world on a wide array of projects that touch every aspect of YouTube’s business.
At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.
Responsibilities
- Manage the end-to-end P2P workflows, leveraging best practices and subject-matter expertise to ensure smooth operations along the entire pipeline.
- Identify opportunities for improvement in process design and execution, and lead project activities to deliver exceptional value to stakeholders.
- Collaborate with Procurement, Purchasing, Finance, and Business Systems teams, as well as vendors and external partners, to drive ad-hoc issues to resolution.
- Design and build key controls to oversee P2P. Partner with YouTube Finance and Google teams as needed to ensure policy compliance. Review month-end postings with Accounting teams to ensure the accuracy of information contributing to financial statements.
- Analyze PO, invoice, expense report, payment, and vendor data to provide program insights including trends, opportunities, and/or abuses. Plan and execute efforts to deliver value from those insights.