Senior Finance Manager

4 weeks ago

Santa Clara, California, United States Palo Alto Networks Full time
Job Description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking an experienced finance professional to join its GTM Finance team as a Senior Finance Manager. This role will support the channels team with business insights and build operational rigor and efficiency.

The ideal candidate will own the financial planning, forecasting, and reporting for channels and provide recommendations to business partners. They will also be responsible for key financial deliverables and ad hoc analyses.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Be a trusted finance partner to the channels leadership team and drive execution of their business priorities
  • Build cross-functional partnerships and lead through influence to help solve complex interdisciplinary problems on behalf of the business
  • Develop GTM metrics and publish financial packages for enhanced business performance visibility on a monthly and quarterly basis
  • Ensure prudence and financial rigor / ROI analysis on channel incentives and rebates, contractual arrangements with partners, and in opex and headcount management
  • Lead the monthly/quarterly close process, focusing on data and insights that will help advance our channel, cloud service provider, and managed service provider routes-to-markets and partnerships from a top-line bookings perspective, as well as the management of headcount and spend
  • Financial business support including budgeting, forecasting, reporting, financial modeling and analysis, and annual planning
  • Lead strategic projects, including projects that require E2E operationalization of partner incentives and rebates programs
  • Improve operational excellence through identification and execution of initiatives that create efficiency, remove obstacles, or create improved processes and approaches to the business
  • Collaborate as well as mentor colleagues in India, as we build our offshore muscle

Qualifications:

  • Bachelors in an analytical field (e.g. Business, Economics, Accounting, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field) - advanced degree/MBA preferred - Big 4 accounting experience or strategy consulting, a plus or equivalent military experience required
  • Must have 12+ years of professional experience, well-versed in Sales Finance, FP&A, or Channels - Familiarity with GTM, channel/ alliance/ ecosystems organization and partner programs mandatory
  • A high degree of intelligence, natural curiosity, and a strong work ethic - Healthy impatience for change - Willingness to ask the tough questions and ensure business partner agreement on complex decision points
  • Resolve complex business issues, ability to move beyond reporting to synthesis and insight
  • Deadline-driven, organized, and able to multi-task with the willingness to adapt to the rapid business and organizational demands that result from a high-growth environment
  • Ability to manage competing priorities with strong focus on delivering high quality results
  • Exceptional analytical and financial modeling abilities, adept at conducting ad hoc analysis and extracting valuable business insights - Power Excel user who is comfortable with large data sets
  • Effective presentation skills with the ability to communicate complex topics in a distilled manner
  • Experience with and/or willingness to master various financial systems, including SAC, SAP, Tableau, Anaplan, and other BI tools
  • Must be in SF bayarea to be onsite

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