Palo Alto Networks, Inc Hiring for Finance Manager, Cloud Finance at Santa Clara, California, US Full Time

Your Career

Qualifications, skills, and all relevant experience needed for this role can be found in the full description below.

We are seeking a highly analytical and strategic Finance Manager to join our dynamic Cloud Finance team. This role offers an exceptional opportunity to drive financial decision-making and operational excellence within our cloud-based products and services.

You’ll thrive in our culture of execution, inclusion, and meritocracy, where you’ll receive top-notch coaching for your professional development.

As part of our collaborative cross-functional teams, you’ll have direct exposure to executive leadership, complete end-to-end ownership of projects, and abundant intellectually stimulating challenges.

This unique position also provides opportunities to engage with external stakeholders – a rarity in traditional corporate finance roles.

If you’re looking for a role that combines financial expertise with strategic impact and personal growth, this is your chance to shine.

Your Impact

• Provide analytical rigor and thought partnership to help drive key business decisions with product and cross-functional teams
• Drive continuous process improvement, standardization, simplification and reporting enhancements
• Develop and monitor critical success metrics, and communicate actionable insights
• Own and lead ad hoc strategic initiatives end to end
• Support team in executing on strategic and financial planning processes (e.g., Monthly Business Reviews, Forecasts, Annual Budget, and Long Range Plan)

Your Experience

• 5+ years of overall management consulting, finance and business analytics experience ideally in technology industry
• 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
• Demonstrated ability and desire to work in and influence a matrixed organizational structure as an individual contributor
• 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 communication
• Experience building dynamic and integrated bottoms-up models
• Experience merging, enhancing, and analyzing large data sets utilizing programming languages (e.g., BQ, SQL, R, Python) a plus
• Cloud infrastructure and Cloud FinOps knowledge as a plus
• Bachelor’s in Finance, Economics, STEM, or equivalent (e.g., CFA, MBA) or equivalent military experience

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