Senior Finance Director, Google [X] and Emerging Businesses @ Leader of finance globally for all of Google’s Emerging Business areas including Google [X] (self-driving cars, balloon powered internet), Life Sciences, Glass, Nest, Robotics, Access & Energy initiatives. Partner with product leadership and CFO to drive business acceleration, determine optimal resource allocation and manage risk across the emerging business portfolio. From 2014 to Present (1 year) Senior Finance Director, Global Marketing @ Leader of global finance and analytics for Google’s global marketing and sales opex agenda, partnering with the CMO on >$3B budget across sales initiatives, consumer product marketing and B2B ads marketing. Product focus areas include YouTube, Search, Android, Hardware/Retail (Chromebooks, Nexus, Android One), Chrome, Google Play. Determine optimal marketing investment strategy across products, channels, geographies based on business strategy, ROI metrics and campaign performance against stated goals. From 2012 to 2015 (3 years) Finance Director, Global G&A @ Leader of global G&A finance team covering Real Estate, Facilities & Services, Human Resources, Legal, Finance and Public Policy & Communications. Partnered with business leaders to determine path forward on numerous strategic projects including international real estate investments (buy, build or lease), patent investment strategy, benefits programs, G&A resource allocation. From 2011 to 2013 (2 years) Finance Director, Finance Strategy & Analytics @ Reporting directly to the CFO, led business strategy and analytics team focused on business process improvements and outsourcing. Led various projects including: outsourced Accounting function to Accenture; revamped M&A Finance Integration; launched Google Financial Services credit card to small businesses. From 2009 to 2011 (2 years) Finance Manager, promoted to Director, APAC & LatAm Sales Finance, Compliance & Operations @ Led sales finance for all Emerging Markets. Built finance team from zero to 40 globally. Developed business case to launch sales offices in 10 new markets, set up infrastructure for new offices including entity set up, payroll, hiring. Designed sales compensation plan, forecast revenue and set sales quotas, performed analytics to identify revenue opportunities. From 2005 to 2009 (4 years) Senior Financial Analyst, EMEA Sales Finance @ From 2003 to 2005 (2 years) Strategy Consultant @ From 2001 to 2003 (2 years) San Francisco Bay AreaFinancial Analyst @ From 1996 to 1999 (3 years) London, United Kingdom
Master of Business Administration (MBA) @ Harvard Business School From 1999 to 2001 Master of Arts (M.A.), Philosophy, Politics & Economics @ University of Oxford Helen Riley is skilled in: Start-ups, Corporate Development, Strategic Partnerships, Financial Modeling, Strategy, Business Strategy, Management Consulting, Mergers & Acquisitions, Analytics, Venture Capital, Corporate Finance
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