Finance Manager, Revenue Forecasting

Palo Alto Networks • Santa Clara, CA

177d • $116,000 - $188,000

About The Position

Palo Alto Networks is looking for an experienced finance professional to join the team as a Finance Business Manager, Corporate Finance. We’re looking for someone with an analytical mind and strong knowledge of finance, who is a self-starter, a great communicator and passionate about driving change in a dynamic fast-paced environment. This role will be responsible for providing key topline and profitability insights that will drive executive decision-making at the corporate level. This is currently an individual contributor role with future potential for expansion into team management.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in Finance, Accounting, or economics; Top-tier MBA strongly preferred or equivalent military experience required.
• 7+ years related experience showing strong career progression; prior Corporate FP&A experience and/or familiarity with SAAS financial concepts a major plus.
• Strong background in SaaS and Hardware revenue recognition (ASC-606).
• Possess deep experience financial planning software and ERP systems (e.g., Anaplan, Pigment, SAP).
• Ability to link big picture to details with ease.
• Familiarity in managing large datasets, applying relevant statistical frameworks and concepts, and deriving executive-level insights.
• Excellent financial modeling skills, with understanding of software, appliances and/or internet industry business models.
• Strong team player with excellent communication skills in an executive facing role.
• Willingness and ability to adapt to the rapid business and organizational changes that accompany a high-growth environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives to continuously automate and scale the topline models as we transition to our new forecasting tool.
• Understand and build the topline financial planning models (monthly forecasts, quarterly, annual, and long term plan) for key topline metrics including but not limited to Revenue, RPO, ARR in the forecasting tool.
• Become the business partner in understanding the company’s topline metrics.
• Develop and maintain close the quarter financial models to help the executive team understand where the topline metrics will close for the quarter.
• Partner with the IT team to ensure accuracy and integrity of reporting systems and dashboards.
• Drive coordination, organization, and execution of quantitative and qualitative analysis on topline metrics throughout the close the quarter process.
• Monitor monthly topline metrics and analyze forecast vs actuals to provide actionable insights to the leadership team.
• Create reporting materials for the executive leadership team, board, and other stakeholders.

Benefits

• FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees.
• Mental and financial health resources.
• Personalized learning opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees