Finance Manager, SASE Finance

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

Job Description

Your Career 

Palo Alto Networks has an exciting opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated candidate to join our SASE Finance team as a Finance Manager. In this role, you will report directly to the Director who leads the SASE Finance function and work with the SASE Finance Team and business partners to help build and deliver on our financial plans, support strategic decision-making, provide financial insight, and support building operational rigor and efficiency. 

This individual will also partner with Theater and Central Finance teams, and collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Sales Operations, Go-To-Market, and Product teams 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.  

Your Impact  

• 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
• Support all key SASE financial metrics, including ARR, Bookings, Revenue, Margins, Renewal rates, Customer Lifetime Value. You will build financial models in excel, google sheet, tableau or other systems such as Anaplan 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, GTM, Product etc.) to continually improve metrics alignment, consistency, data integrity, and automation
• Drive and provide support for ad-hoc strategic and financial analyses

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Economic related field or equivalent military experience required
• MBA, CPA, or equivalent experience a plus
• 5+ years of related FP&A and business analysis experience with record of strong achievement - prior investment banking experience is a plus
• Understand drivers and economics of a SaaS business model
• Advanced proficiency in Tableau, Excel and experience with financial systems and data visualization tools (e.g. SFDC, SAP BPC, Tableau, Einstein Analytics)
• Ability to prioritize business needs, adapt to rapid business changes, meet tight deadlines, and communicate effectively
• Bonus points for experience merging, enhancing, and analyzing large data sets utilizing technologies (e.g. SQL, R, Python)
• Team player, self-motivated, proactive, organized, and positive attitude

Additional Information

The Team

You have a passion for numbers, our organization has a passion for cybersecurity. You’re looking for a career with a more fulfilling mission. We have open positions to top talent seeking a financial challenge. Our finance department deals with numbers daily, supporting infrastructure, dealing in automation, building elegant models and solutions to empower our business lines and solutions.