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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!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks has an exciting opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated Finance Manager, Unit 42 Speedboat Finance professional to join our team. In this role, you will report directly to the Senior Manager, Unit 42 Finance and work with the Unit 42 Finance Team and its respective business partners to help build and deliver on our financial plans, support strategic decision-making, provide financial insights, 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 and Strategy 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 cybersecurity consulting metrics - you will continue to refine existing and design new KPIs to make them business relevant and able to analyze trends, as well as changes versus industry benchmarks

• Own all key Unit 42 financial metrics (incl. ARR, Bookings, Revenue, Margins, Renewal rate, Customer lifetime value, etc.) - You will own the process, build financial models in Excel, Google Sheets, Tableau or other systems to set up fully automated models - You will also be tasked with examining and validating data to ensure reporting is accurate and precise

• 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

Your Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, or an Economics-related field or equivalent military experience required

• MBA, CPA, CMA, or equivalent experience a plus

• 8+ years of related FP&A and business analysis experience with record of strong achievement

• Understand drivers and economics of both SaaS and consulting-oriented business models

• Advanced proficiency in Excel, Tableau, and experience with financial systems and data visualization tools (e.g. SFDC, SAP Analytics Cloud, Tableau, and Clarizen)

• Ability to prioritize business needs, adapt to rapid business changes, meet tight deadlines, and communicate effectively

• Preferred Qualifications - Deep understanding of, or a strong willingness to learn, revenue recognition and management accounting techniques (i.e., cost accounting, project-oriented accounting)

• Bonus points for experience merging, enhancing, and analyzing large data sets utilizing data analytics technologies (e.g. SQL, R, Python, Looker) and Google Suite (Drive, Sheets, Slides, Docs)

• Must be an energetic team player who is self-motivated, proactive, organized, and maintains positive attitude

The Team

You have a passion for numbers, our organization has a passion for cybersecurity. You’re looking for a career with a more fulfilling mission. We have open positions to top talent seeking a financial challenge.

Our finance department brings insight to numbers to drive action. Finance builds elegant models and solutions to understand what happened, why it happened and what it means to the future - to empower and guide our business leaders. The ideal candidate has exceptional financial acumen and ability to guide the team in financial modeling, analytics and innovation resulting in finance influence and consulting. Within finance, we seek people who are looking to try new things, while solving business critical issues with credibility and integrity. If you’re seeking a financial challenge but with a world-wide 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 non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $127000 - $205500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here (http://benefits.paloaltonetworks.com/) .

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 accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com .

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.

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