Principal Anaplan IT Product Manager

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  

We are looking for a motivated, intelligent, hardworking and creative individual to work with our Finance Systems who is responsible for taking on Anaplan analysis to solve strategic high-value business problems, seek opportunities for cost optimization, drive operational efficiency, and work on ongoing improvement activities.  

Using your experience in Anaplan, you are expected to develop system solutions and provide solutions for the Finance business function.  You will be partnering with cross-functional teams both on IT and business functions to drive process automation, efficiency, scalability and consistency to support business growth.  In addition, you will also drive project delivery, enhancement prioritization  across various finance priorities delivering high business value and in the process foster great partnerships. By partnering with key stakeholders across the finance and other cross functional organizations, applying leading practices, help transform the finance business function to adopt new technologies and drive to be the best in class.

Your Impact  

• Develop ad-hoc reporting and provide analysis to support business decision-making processes  
• Collaborate with Business stakeholders and IT teams to help understand opportunity areas of optimization and growth
• Develop Anaplan roadmap, manage deadlines and deliver projects on time with high quality
• Collaborate with the cross-functional team to develop integrated Anaplan solution to support business processes, executing project deliverables, with an emphasis on quality, productivity, and consistency
• Help drive our Finance digital transformation Product roadmap, drive automation, scalability and efficiency
• Use data to discover opportunities, track product performance and support decision-making
• Collaborate across teams - We win or lose as a team - Play a critical role in creating alignment across the cross-functional Leadership team
• Communicate clearly and efficiently - Coordinate product release communications and drive transformational change for the Sales workforce
• Possess an acute sense of urgency and is able to resolve project issues and roadblocks throughout the product development lifecycle
• Enjoy working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, by creating products that will make a profound impact on the user

Qualifications

Your Experience  

• Experience with Anaplan as a planning tool, creating planning data models and working with categories actual, budget, planning, forecast, rolling forecast
• 6+ years of experience required in Anaplan Analytical/Reporting work streams 
• Familiarity with analytic applications and analytic designer, screen layout, widgets, custom scripts JavaScript
• Extensive experience in data modeling and preparing datasets, merging, appending, custom hierarchies, custom calculations, groupings, formatting values, data wrangling, dimensions and measures
• Strong finance and cross functional business process, focussed on FP&A
• Ability to work closely with Process Owners and other key stakeholders
• Ability to interact and influence variety of users including process stakeholders, drive adoption of Anaplan tool across the organization
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to chair change management