Job Description

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks has an exciting opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated Finance Manager Sales FP&A professional to join our team.  In this role you will work closely with the Director of North America Finance and business partners in North America Sales to help drive strategic decisionmaking provide financial insight and build operational rigor and efficiency. 

This individual will also partner with Speedboat and Central Finance teams and collaborate crossfunctionally with Sales Sales Operations on a regular basis. Being successful in this role requires a large degree of analytical thought leadership excellent organization and communication skills and the ability to drive process improvement and actionable insights across all the key FP&A areas.  

Your Impact

• Business Partnering Trusted advisor and Finance partner to key Sales leadership within North America  Develop an understanding of their business and translate that into operational and financial information  Help develop various metrics and reports to monitor the health of the business on a regular basis including identification of areas of P&L risk and opportunities Deliver insights to help grow and drive profitability of the NAM business  Support the analysis approval and execution of key operational activities such as headcount requisitions program spend purchase requisitions and time and expenses  Able and willing to champion difficult but necessary tradeoffs in the business
• Planning for North America Theater  Translate Gotomarket strategy and company goals into annual Bookings OPEX and HC plans Actively engaged in the planning processes for North America including driving runrate analysis investment modeling affordability analysis and budget allocation
• Quarterly / Monthly Close Forecast and Reporting  Guide and drive the Segment Sales financial close and forecast process  Provide monthly and quarterly financial reporting analysis and key metrics that enable business decision making  Incorporate best practices and create a more streamlined methodical and datadriven approach to forecasting and drive a more efficient close process
• Lead Projects to evaluate investments and GTM strategy optimize resource allocation and drive efficiency and process improvement  Upholding a mindset of continuous improvement to enable the NAM to scale the business and deliver high impact analysis for decision making
• Mentor and Coach to junior team members  As one of the senior members on the team it is critical to have a growth mindset a cando/rollup your sleeves attitude and a willingness to teach and support other junior team members in their growth and professional development  Understand the importance of collaboration team success and building a valuesdriven team culture

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• Bachelors in Business Finance or Accounting or equivalent military experience MBA CPA or equivalent experience a plus
• Strong FP&A experience
• Experience with ERP and/or Planning Systems
• Ability to demonstrate effective leadership in ambiguous and frequently changing situations
• Strong project management planning and organization skills including ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously in a fastpaced environment
• Takes charge of complex issues and develop new ways of approaching business challenges independently and proactively
• Superior analytical and problemsolving skills with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor
• Ability to lead by example with a growth mindset willingness to listen and embrace change and a natural hunger to continuously learn and improve
• Executionfocused
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Selfstarter with unquestionable integrity
• Passionate highenergy impactful teamplayer

Additional Information :

The Team

Youre looking for a career with a more fulfilling mission. We have open positions to top talent seeking a challenge. Our NAM Sales Finance team sits at an exciting intersection of a critical and rapidly growing industry supporting a sales organization that is poised to evolve and scale. If you have the relevant FP&A experience and acumen an innovative and proactive leanin mindset to problem solving and a desire to help build a highperforming positive and inclusive team culture this could be the place for you! Our innovation doesnt stay in Research and Development. Within finance we seek people who are looking to try new things while solving business critical equations. If youre seeking a challenge with a worldwide impact this is it.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications experience and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level the starting base salary (for nonsales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $116000 $188000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need please contact us at   .

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime

Job Tags

Full time, Remote job, Worldwide,

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