Manager, Financial Systems

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.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. 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.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

Your Career

Reporting to the Manager, FP&A Systems and Transformation, the person in this role will own the SAP Analytics Cloud tool and will support critical FP&A processes, including budget, forecast, close, management reporting, etc. This role requires a keen attention to detail, ability to work in a fast-paced environment with many changing and competing priorities. 

As the admin of FP&A’s planning and budgeting tool, the person in this role will be responsible for managing integration, consolidation, and refresh cycles in support of close, forecast and budget cycles, and will 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 reporting solutions.

The successful candidate will have systems focused experience used for planning and reporting (e.g. 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 SAP Analytics Cloud and act as primary point of contact for troubleshooting and support to the broader FP&A team
• Maintain data integrity across systems to ensure the FP&A planning tool (SAP Analytics Cloud) is accurate for actuals, data hierarchies, cost centers, product codes, general ledger accounts, etc
• Create reporting templates, input forms, dashboards, etc
• Using source data to provide visualization to the end-user
• Manage integration and refresh cycles that meet the users’ needs, with emphasis during the close and forecast cycles
• Understand the FP&A team’s current reporting system 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

Your Experience 

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Management Information Systems, Finance, Accounting, related field, or equivalent work experience or equivalent military experience required
• Minimum 8+ years experience with financial systems (SAP Analytics Cloud, Hyperion Essbase, Anaplan or similar)
• Basic accounting and finance knowledge
• 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
• Basic understanding of SQL (GCP, Oracle, other relational databases)
• 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 and problem-solving skills
• Familiarity with data and systems governance processes
• Passion for Data, BI and analytics to drive business value
• Superb attention to detail and a strong commitment to data integrity. Ability to manage multiple deliverables and competing priorities
• Comfortable working with ambiguity in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Hungry and humble attitude, a personal growth and development mindset, and win as a team mentality

The Team

You’re looking for a career with a more fulfilling mission. We have open positions to top talent seeking a challenge. Our finance department performs deep analyses to understand the business and inform the strategic direction of the company. The ideal candidate has exceptional leadership skills, knowledge of financial modeling, business acumen and an innovative mindset to approach problems differently. Our innovation doesn’t stay in Research and Development. Within finance, we seek people who are looking to try new things, while solving business critical equations. If you’re seeking a challenge with a world-wide impact – this is it.

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t 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  [email protected].

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.

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