Google VP and CAO Amie Thuener, explores her path to Google, her time at the FASB, and the lessons she learned along the way.
FEI's "How I Got Here" series features conversations with finance leaders about career transitions, personal growth, and overcoming obstacles.
In this 1 CPE credit session Google VP and CAO Amie Thuener explores her path to Google, her time at the FASB, and the lessons she learned along the way. Amie also shares the advice she gives the young women she mentors and implores on others, the importance of working your network and gaining experiences outside of your career.
Field of Study: Personal Development, Non-technical
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Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer | Alphabet Inc. / Google Inc.
Amie Thuener is Vice President, Principal Accounting Officer and Bets Finance. In this role, Ms. Thuener is responsible for global external reporting and certifying the financial statements. Additionally, she leads the Finance teams for the non-Google Alphabet companies, including Verily, Waymo, Access, X, GV, Sidewalk, and DeepMind, where her responsibilities include overseeing annual budgets, managing compensation plans, and performing valuations. She also leads the M&A finance team performing diligence, valuations, financial structuring and accounting for all M&A transactions. Prior to Google, Ms. Thuener was Managing Director in PricewaterhouseCooper’s Transaction Services Group. Over the course of her 16 year tenure with PwC, she worked in the audit practice in San Francisco, spent two years at the firm's National office, and worked in the firm's Transaction Services practice in New York and San Jose. She was also a Practice Fellow at the Financial Accounting Standards Board from 2004 to 2006.
