Finance Business Analyst (Anaplan)

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.

Disruption is at the core of our technology and on our way of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. We’re changing the nature of 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.

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

Reporting to the Sr Manager, Finance Systems, this role will provide critical  support on Anaplan design, functionality, process, and roadmap from the FP&A perspective. This role requires a keen attention to detail, ability to work in a fast-paced environment with many changing and competing priorities. Collaborating with Finance and IT leaders to create a connective planning solution through Anaplan.

As the FP&A point on the Anaplan system, you will be responsible for managing functional integration, working with Finance to determine use cases, developing business requirements, leading UAT, training, and change management. Also, act as the first line of support for incoming requests and troubleshooting.

In partnership with Palo Alto Networks broader FP&A team, this role will play a key role in developing standardized and scalable forecasting and planning solutions.

The successful candidate will have systems focused experience used for planning and reporting (e.g. Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, Tableau, etc) in a corporate finance environment.

Your Impact

• The candidate will have a proven track record of partnership and delivering results and will be passionate about enabling financial processes, modeling, reporting, and analysis through BI technologies
• Serve as administrator and expert user of Anaplan and act as primary point of contact for troubleshooting and support to the broader FP&A team
• Maintain data integrity across systems to ensure FP&A Anaplan is accurate for actuals, data hierarchies, cost centers, product codes, general ledger accounts, etc
• Using source data to provide visualization to the end-user
• Understand the FP&A team’s current planning processes  and identify and lead areas of improvement and simplification
• Develop and support ongoing user training to ensure all functional users understand the application capabilities and leverage system capabilities to deliver the optimal user experience to the Finance team
• Ad hoc modeling, analysis, and reporting, as required

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Management Information Systems, Finance, Accounting or related field
• Minimum of 3~5 years experience in jobs of increasing responsibility within Finance or Accounting.
• Experience with financial systems (SAP Analytics Cloud, Hyperion Essbase, Anaplan or similar) highly preferred 
• Basic understanding of SQL (GCP, Oracle, other relational databases) preferred 
• Experience in requirements gathering and translating business requirements to technical stories, understanding of unit testing/QA/reconciliation, ability to build and demo proof of concept reports/models
• Passion for Data, BI and analytics to drive business value
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills with the ability to impart ideas in both technical and user-friendly language
• Highly motivated and driven, a self-starter with keen attention to detail and the ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent analytical