Finance Manager

Job Description

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks has an exciting opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated Finance Manager, Sales Finance professional to join our team. In this role, you will report directly to the Director, Prisma Cloud Finance and work with the Prisma Cloud Finance Team and business partners to help build and deliver on our financial plans, support strategic decision-making, provide financial insight, and help build operational rigor and efficiency.

This individual will also partner with Theater and Central Finance teams, and collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Sales Operations on a regular basis. Being successful in this role requires a strong analytical ability, excellent organization and communication skills, and the ability to support/enable process improvement and insights across all the key FP&A areas.

Your Impact

Build and develop SaaS metrics - you will continue to refine existing and design new KPI to make them business relevant and able to analyze the trend, changes versus industry benchmarks

Own all key Prisma Cloud financial metrics, including ARR, Bookings, Revenue, Margins, Renewal rate, Customer lifetime value, etc. - You will own the process, build financial models in excel, google sheet, tableau or other systems to set up fully automated models - You will also examine and validate data, not reporting bad numbers

Architect of visual presentation - Your analytical, storytelling and artistic skills will be very handy for our monthly and quarterly performance review decks, as well as other custom business presentations to senior management

Be a Strategist - You will have many opportunities to dig deeper into the business to provide actionable insights and recommendations through data analysis

Collaborate cross-functionally (e.g. Theater finance, India COE team, IT, Customer Success, Sales Ops, etc) to continually improve metrics alignment, consistency, data integrity, and automation