Finance Manager, FP&A

Palo Alto Networks • Santa Clara, CA

50d • Onsite

About The Position

Palo Alto Networks has an exciting opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated Senior Finance Manager professional to join our team. In this role, you will report directly to the Director, Cortex & Cloud Finance and work with the Cortex & Cloud Finance Team and business partners to help build and deliver on our financial plans, support strategic decision-making, provide financial insight, and help build operational rigor and efficiency. This individual will also partner with Theater and Central Finance teams, and collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Sales Operations on a regular basis. Being successful in this role requires a strong analytical ability, excellent organization and communication skills, and the ability to support/enable process improvement and insights across all the key FP&A areas.

Requirements

• 7+ years related experience showing strong career progression - prior Corporate FP&A experience and/or familiarity with US GAAP revenue standards for technology companies/SAAS companies is a plus
• Strong knowledge of ASC-606 required
• Ability to link big picture to details with ease
• Experience with a combination of the following: ARR, MRR, SaaS Metrics, Bookings, Renewals
• Familiarity in managing large datasets, applying relevant statistical frameworks and concepts, and deriving executive-level insights
• Strong team player with excellent communication and presentation skills
• Willingness and ability to adapt to rapid business and organizational changes that accompany a high-growth environment
• Independent with enthusiasm for solving unstructured questions and providing thought leadership
• Strong experience with Excel, PowerPoint, G Suite, SAP, and Tableau - Pigment experience is a plus
• Bachelor degree in Economics/Business/Finance or related field or equivalent military experience required

Nice To Haves

• prior Corporate FP&A experience and/or familiarity with US GAAP revenue standards for technology companies/SAAS companies
• Pigment experience

Responsibilities

• Build and develop SaaS metrics: you will continue to refine existing and design new KPIs to make them business relevant and able to analyze the trend, changes versus industry benchmarks
• Own key Cortex & Cloud financial metrics, including ARR, Bookings, Revenue, Margins, Renewal rate, Customer Lifetime Value. You will own the process, build financial models in excel, google sheet, tableau or other systems to to set up fully automated models.
• Architect of visual presentation: Your analytical, storytelling and design skills will be very handy for our monthly and quarterly performance review decks, as well as other custom business presentations to senior management
• Be a Strategist: You will have many opportunities to dig deeper into the business to provide actionable insights and recommendations through data analysis.
• Collaborate cross-functionally (e.g. Theater finance, India COE team, IT, Customer Success, Sales Ops, etc) to continually improve metrics alignment, consistency, data integrity, and automation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees