Senior 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.

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 Cloud 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 corporate finance experience and experience/knowledge of the cloud.  We are looking for someone to lead our long term cloud spend forecasting, CSP negotiations, annual planning and executive deliverables, and 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  

• Drive analytics to support our CSP negotiations
• Provide analytical rigor and thought partnership to help drive key business decisions with product and cross-functional teams
• Own and lead ad hoc strategic initiatives end to end
• Execute strategic and financial planning processes (e.g., Monthly Business Reviews, Forecasts, Annual Budget, and Long Range Plan)
• Develop and monitor critical success metrics, and communicate actionable insights 

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Bachelor’s in Finance, Economics, or equivalent (e.g., CFA, MBA) or equivalent military experience required
• 7+ years of overall Finance experience 
• 2+ years of investment banking or equity research experience focused in the tech industry is a plus
• Experience building dynamic and integrated bottoms-up financial models from scratch
• Management consulting and managing cloud infrastructure budgets experience a plus
• 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
• 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 communicat