Finance Manager - Data & Analytics

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.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback – it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

Our Approach to Work

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 

The Corporate Finance team is seeking to add a high-impact Manager to lead its Data and Analytics team. 

The ideal candidate will be a problem-solver and advisor at heart. We are looking for someone with solid business judgment and experience tackling complex business issues. Identifying a comprehensive framework, gathering evidence and building a lucid narrative are skills critical to success in this role. Flexibility and quick thinking are essential, as you would be expected to build analyses and marshal resources in a dynamic environment to address novel business questions. Analytical skills and business acumen skills are going to be critical to be able to identify, measure and impact the important metrics needed to manage the business; ability to simplify complex content and marry analytical/scientific thinking with business demand is going to be key in order to be successful. 

Your Impact 

• You must be able to build a strong finance data foundation, meaningful analytics and proper controls over the various metrics being managed and reported by Corporate
• You will be a key analytics partner for the FP&A leadership by understanding the business challenges and creating necessary dashboards to drive relevant business decisions
• Identify key opportunities for automation and work closely with the Systems team to help develop the next generation of data analytics
• Build and maintain Tableau dashboards for - Revenue, Headcount and P&L reporting
• Be involved in the development and deployment of business intelligence solutions for FP&A community 
• Support Management reporting with any ad hoc needs that arise through the course of a quarter
• Nurture deep, trusted partnerships with your respective technical teams and IT 
• Provide analytical rigor and bring technical- strategic leadership to operational initiatives
• Drive continuous process improvement, standardization, simplification, install proper controls and reporting enhancements
• Develop and monitor critical success metrics, and communicate actionable insights 
• Creativity, especially in problem-solving - able to use creativity and curiosity as tools to pick apart any problem, producing a solution that is relevant and realistic - identifies creative solutions and not afraid to think outside the box - finds creative solutions for data challenges & storytelling

Qualifications

Your Experience  

• Bachelor’s in Finance, IT, or equivalent (e.g. MBA) strongly preferred or equivalent military experience required  
• Experience 5+ years FP&A experience or equivalent tenure from related positions in corporate finance, accounting, data analytics teams 
• Experience working with and having an understanding of  SaaS revenue models, related revenue recognition and SaaS metrics desired
• Advanced user of Tableau, GCP- Big Query, SAP Analytics and Excel ( running Macros and SQL’s)
• 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

Additional Information

The Team  

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