diff --git a/cosmos/operators/_asynchronous/bigquery.py b/cosmos/operators/_asynchronous/bigquery.py
index 1d28f5da3e..007ea47145 100644
--- a/cosmos/operators/_asynchronous/bigquery.py
+++ b/cosmos/operators/_asynchronous/bigquery.py
@@ -5,7 +5,15 @@
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Sequence
 
 import airflow
-from airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.bigquery import BigQueryInsertJobOperator
+
+try:
+    from airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.bigquery import BigQueryInsertJobOperator
+except ImportError:
+    raise ImportError(
+        "Could not import BigQueryInsertJobOperator. Ensure you've installed the Google Cloud provider separately or "
+        "with with `pip install apache-airflow-providers-google`."
+    )
+
 from airflow.utils.context import Context
 from airflow.utils.session import NEW_SESSION, provide_session
 from packaging.version import Version
@@ -158,7 +166,12 @@ def _store_template_fields(self, context: Context, session: Session = NEW_SESSIO
         self.log.debug("Executed SQL is: %s", sql)
         self.compiled_sql = sql
 
-        profile = self.profile_config.profile_mapping.profile
+        if self.profile_config.profile_mapping is not None:
+            profile = self.profile_config.profile_mapping.profile
+        else:
+            raise CosmosValueError(
+                "The `profile_config.profile`_mapping attribute must be defined to use `ExecutionMode.AIRFLOW_ASYNC`"
+            )
         self.gcp_project = profile["project"]
         self.dataset = profile["dataset"]