Global Equity Programs Analyst

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

You are self-motivated and have a deep interest in equity administration at a public company with complex global equity programs, fast learner, have the ability to understand and analyze the big picture of our function yet have eagle eye for details, have excellent organizational skills, drive operational excellence, and are an excellent team player Senior Analyst within our Global Equity Programs team. Our team supports Palo Alto Networks’ global equity programs: Restricted Stock Units, Performance Awards, and an amazing Employee Stock Purchase Plan! and our employees in over 60 countries…and we are continuing to grow! 

Your Impact

• Support equity plans administration/operations - maintain Leave of Absence and Mobility data in the equity system of record - maintain timely and accurate funds flows for special Foreign Direct accounts for our China and Israel sub-plans
• Learn and with time take on RSU releases, end to end
• Support Tax and Accounting reporting for month, quarter, and year end activity, and ad hoc requests
• Manage content for our team’s intranet page (LOOP) to ensure it is continuously up to date
• Draft communications, FAQs, and materials (as necessary) to optimize employees’ understanding of our equity programs - Support communication efforts for ESPP open enrollment, purchase and post-purchase, and collaborate with organization of ESPP education sessions
• Manage employee inquiries’ workflow to maintain or exceed service level agreements for response times; assign tickets to the team, as necessary
• Contribute new ideas to help us innovate and transform existing programs/processes and introduce new programs, to enable a flexible, scalable and compliant global equity programs function at Palo Alto Networks
• Willing to study/attain CEP certification (if not already attained) and learn other functional areas of our team to continuously expand your skill set and grow in your career

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance or related field or equivalent military experience req (recent graduates with a CEP designation are welcome to apply!) 
• Motivated to learn equity administration function, ability to troubleshoot and/or analyze equity transaction issues arising from RSUs, PSUs, Stock Options, ESPP
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, eagle eye for details
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills - ability to adapt technical content into simple, clear and concise communications 
• Ability to think outside of the box and contribute to our process improvements and innovation - status quo is your worst nightmare!
• Advanced MS Excel skills and proficiency with GSuite - ability to quickly learn different technologies
• Certified Equity Professional (Level 3) designation preferred
• Self-motivated, flexible, deadline-oriented, collaborative, and a great team player!

Additional Information

The Team 

Our Global Equity Programs team works closely together to collaborate amongst ourselves and with key stakeholders to come up with best-in-class and scalable ways to define our processes/programs and support our employee clients and business partners. 

Our Commitment  

We’re trailblazers who dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecur