Senior Manager, Cloud Strategy Operations and 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.

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. 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

We’re changing the nature of work. Palo Alto Networks is evolving to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks.  And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.

Job Description

Your Career

The Cloud Strategy, Operations and Finance team is seeking to add a high-impact Sr. Manager to its team. We’re looking for a self-starter with strong analytical skills, an effective communicator, and a leader passionate for driving change in a dynamic fast-paced environment – all-in-one.

Cloud infrastructure is a critical strategic component to our cloud delivered security offerings. The Cloud Strategy, Operations and Finance team manages cloud spend across the whole PANW portfolio and across Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). We directly manage relationships with our CSPs and drive procurement optimizations via rate negotiations and committed/reserved usage discounts.  Working alongside a tight-knit cross-functional group with CloudOps and IT, we build tooling and dashboards to provide teams with visibility into usage optimization opportunities and cloud unit economics, enabling teams to make the best strategic business decisions and providing Executive Staff with insightful, proactive recommendations to drive both topline and bottom-line growth across various portfolios within the Company.

The ideal candidate will be a proven problem-solver with experience/knowledge of the cloud.  We are looking for someone who can be a business partner / advisor to our product and cross-functional teams on all-things-cloud hosting. Someone who can break down complex problems, be able to gather the data/evidence, conduct analysis and package and present the insights to senior executives. If you want to be part of a team of trustworthy advisors that is looked upon to make informed and persuasive recommendations to the C-level suite, apply today.

Your Impact  

• Nurture deep, trusted partnerships with product and cross-functional teams across our cloud delivered security service offerings
• Provide analytical rigor and thought partnership to help drive key business decisions
• Own and lead ad hoc strategic initiatives end to end
• Execute strategic and financial planning processes for your teams (e.g., Monthly Business Reviews, Forecasts, Annual Budget, and Long Range Plan)
• Drive continuous process improvement, standardization, simplification and reporting enhancements
• Develop and monitor critical success metrics, and communicate actionable insights 

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Bachelor’s in Finance, Economics, or equivalent (e.g., CPA, MBA) or equivalent military experience strongly preferred - Prior management consulting (Bain, BCG, McKinsey), and/or investment banking experience a plus
• Generally 7+ years of relevant experience showing career progression - Experience overseeing large cloud infrastructure budgets for technology companies and/or working with product management strongly preferred
• Demonstrated ability and desire to work in and influence a matrixed organizational structure as an individual contributor
• 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
• Experience in, or willingness and aptitude to quickly learn SQL a must
• Experience with and/or a willingness to master various financial systems/ BI tools, (i.e. SAP, Tableau)
• Extensive experience building integrated bottoms-up models from scratch with an ability to build enterprise level infrastructure plans, both near-term operational and forward conceptual
• 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 commu