Senior Manager, Payments Finance

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• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.


• 14 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function.


• Experience managing people, scaling teams, and developing talent.


• Experience leading executive-level business planning, long-range forecasting, and commercial decision frameworks.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree, MBA, or CFA.


• 10 years of experience in strategic finance, corporate FP&A, investment banking, management consulting, or commercial finance leadership within a global technology enterprise.


• Experience in advising VP-level executives and influencing cross-functional product, engineering, and business development leadership.


• Experience in fintech, payment gateways, consumer digital wallets, payment infrastructure, or large-scale transaction networks.


• Experience establishing agreement operations, commercial pricing strategies, and contract governance.


• Ability to structure high-ambiguity business problems into clear operational roadmaps and compelling executive-ready narratives.

About the job

The Payments Finance team provides strategic finance, planning, and analytics support across the Payments organization, spanning Payments Platform and Consumer Payments. We act as principal advisors to senior leadership, delivering strategic insights, commercial, and capital allocation frameworks that accelerate innovation and secure sustainable long-term growth across Google’s business generation ecosystem.

As a Finance Senior Manager, you will serve as the lead finance business partner supporting Payments Platform and Consumer Payments (ex-India). In this role, you will set the strategic financial agenda, steer multi-year business planning, and lead an FP&A team. You will drive enterprise-level decision-making across commercial structures, Agreement Desk evaluations, metric architecture, and cross-Product Area alignments.

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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

About the job

The Payments Finance team provides strategic finance, planning, and analytics support across the Payments organization, spanning Payments Platform and Consumer Payments. We act as principal advisors to senior leadership, delivering strategic insights, commercial, and capital allocation frameworks that accelerate innovation and secure sustainable long-term growth across Google’s business generation ecosystem.

As a Finance Senior Manager, you will serve as the lead finance business partner supporting Payments Platform and Consumer Payments (ex-India). In this role, you will set the strategic financial agenda, steer multi-year business planning, and lead an FP&A team. You will drive enterprise-level decision-making across commercial structures, Agreement Desk evaluations, metric architecture, and cross-Product Area alignments.

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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $219000 - $305000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits Learn more about benefits at Google .

• Act as the trusted finance lead to Payments Platform and Consumer Payments leadership, delivering strategic narratives, capital allocation models, and commercial guidance to shape global product roadmaps.


• Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing finance team by allocating resources across complex workstreams, driving operational excellence, and advocating career development.


• Steer end-to-end business planning, annual budgeting, target-setting, and rolling forecasts across Platform and Consumer divisions, balancing ambitious growth with operational discipline.


• Oversee the Payments agreement desk and cross-product area (xPA) infrastructure initiatives, establishing commercial evaluation frameworks, pricing, margin expectations, and global transaction fee oversight.


• Architect the input/output metric ecosystem and leading indicators to evaluate ecosystem health, transaction economics, platform efficiency, and user business generation.

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Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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