Sarah Watson

About Sarah Watson

I have 10 years of experience working in Financial Planning & Analysis in the tech industry and I have my MBA from UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business. Currently, I am a Finance Manager in Corporate FP & A at Google. I was a Senior Financial Analyst on the same team for three years before this with a focus on segment reporting and allocations governance.Before starting my full-time MBA, I was a Senior Financial Analyst at Salesforce, where I worked on the Corporate Planning team with three main responsibilities: forecasting deferred revenue on a monthly basis, tracking foreign exchange movements and assessing the impact on the quarter, and preparing the weekly finance update for the CFO to deliver at the executive staff meeting. Previously, I spent three years at NetApp where I supported R&D as a financial analyst before spending a year on the Corporate FP & A team consolidating monthly results and forecasts for the company. In addition to my professional experience, I sit on the Audit Committee for the nonprofit LifeMoves. I have also served two terms on their Board of Directors and volunteered on their NextGen Advisory Board for seven years. Competencies: Google Workspace; Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word; Financial Analysis; Hyperion Essbase; Fluent in Spanish.

Experience

1. Finance Manager, Xpa Finance

   Google

   Nov 2023 — Present · Sunnyvale, CA, US

Education

• Stanford University

  BS, Management Science and Engineering with a focus in Financial and Decision Engineering

  2009 — 2013

• University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

  MBA

  2018 — 2020