Finance Manager, Cloud 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 personalization 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 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 with some flexibility offered where needed. 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 on the industry’s best cybersecurity solutions together!

Job Description

Your Career 

We are seeking a highly analytical and strategic Finance Manager to join our dynamic Cloud Finance team. This role offers an exceptional opportunity to drive financial decision-making and operational excellence within our cloud-based products and services. You'll thrive in our culture of execution, inclusion, and meritocracy, where you'll receive top-notch coaching for your professional development. As part of our collaborative cross-functional teams, you'll have direct exposure to executive leadership, complete end-to-end ownership of projects, and abundant intellectually stimulating challenges. This unique position also provides opportunities to engage with external stakeholders - a rarity in traditional corporate finance roles. If you're looking for a role that combines financial expertise with strategic impact and personal growth, this is your chance to shine.

Your Impact 

• Provide analytical rigor and thought partnership to help drive key business decisions with product and cross-functional teams
• Drive continuous process improvement, standardization, simplification and reporting enhancements
• Develop and monitor critical success metrics, and communicate actionable insights 
• Own and lead ad hoc strategic initiatives end to end
• Support team in executing on strategic and financial planning processes (e.g., Monthly Business Reviews, Forecasts, Annual Budget, and Long Range Plan)

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• 5+ years of overall management consulting, finance and business analytics experience ideally in technology industry
• Analytical problem-solver with the ability to gather, analyze and synthesize large amounts of data in order to drive effective and efficient executive decision-making - Own the end-to-end recommendation process
• Demonstrated ability and desire to work in and influence a matrixed organizational structure as an individual contributor
• Go-getter mindset and ability to maintain high-performance under tight timelines with a “roll-up sleeves mindset”
• Exceptional presentation/leadership skills, concise and fluent in communication 
• Experience building dynamic and integrated bottoms-up models
• Experience merging, enhancing, and analyzing large data sets utilizing programming languages (e.g., BQ, SQL, R, Python) a plus
• Cloud infrastructure and Cloud FinOps knowledge as a plus
• Bachelor’s in Finance, Economics, STEM, or equivalent (e.g., CFA, MBA) or equivalent military experience 

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. The ideal candidate has exceptional skills in financial modeling and analytics and an innovative mindset to approach finance problems differently. Our innovation doesn’t stay in Research and Development. Within finance, we seek people who are looking to try new things, while solving business critical equations. If you’re seeking a financial challenge but with a world-wide impact — this is it. 

We hope to meet you soon!

Our Commitment