Finance Director, Advertising and AI

## About the role * Strategic Financial Leadership: Partner with engineering and business leaders to drive financial objectives, optimize investments, and identify efficiency opportunities across Browser, Search, and News products. * Investment Optimization: Lead financial planning and analysis for AI-driven workloads, including search quality enhancements and platform transformation. * Profitability & Cost Management: Develop and execute strategies to improve gross margin, vertical P&Ls, and cost-to-serve metrics, ensuring sustainable financial growth. * Data-Driven Decision Making: Utilize advanced financial modeling, external benchmarks, and unit economic frameworks to define north-star unit costs and maximize return on invested capital. * Executive Communication: Craft compelling narratives using storytelling techniques to communicate complex financial insights in a clear and impactful manner to senior leadership. * Team Leadership & Development: Lead a team of highly capable individuals with exceptional, inclusive people management capabilities. Foster a culture of "Model, Coach, and Care." Recruit, develop, and retain a high-performing team. * Strategic Investment & ROI Assessment: Partner to develop investment strategies and ROI assessments of program dollars, making tradeoffs across the O&O portfolio of products to optimize investments. * Competitive Analytics & Insights: Build compete analytics and insights across Advertising & AI businesses, leveraging insights to shape planning discussions and influence roadmap decisions. * Financial Rhythms & Accuracy: Lead core financial rhythms for the O&O businesses (Budget, Forecast, LRP, Close, etc.), driving insights through analytics and maintaining high forecast accuracy. ## Requirements * Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 8+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 10+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field OR equivalent experience. * 1+ year(s) experience managing direct reports. * Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive financial excellence in a fast-paced environment. * Exceptional analytical skills with expertise in financial modeling, forecasting, and performance measurement. * Exceptional communication skills with the ability to simplify complex financial concepts for executive audiences ## Nice to have * (None listed in source text) ## What we offer * (None listed in source text) ## About us * (None listed in source text)