Senior Manager, Program Management

Our Mission At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.

Who We Are In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values:
Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Job Summary
• Drive change across the CFO organization and be willing to wear multiple hats (strategy development, deployment of projects) to do what it takes to support the business
• Establish simple, repeatable ways to gather information and drive accountability , ensuring business readiness
• Use first principles to design future state business workflows to create operational efficiencies
• Work collaboratively across a cross-functional set of stakeholders (finance and operations, IT, go-to-market, product) to gather the right information, pressure test hypotheses, articulate complex business problems, mobilize a project team, implement solutions and drive accountability
• Structure and size large complex projects into outcomes
• Develop roadmaps, key metrics, change management strategies, communication plans and conduct post implementation reviews to ensure the value of a project was successfully unlocked
• Create deliverables (business case memos, key decision documents, presentations, etc.) for executive level consumption
• Drive the end-to-end execution of initiatives that support finance-wide transformation through AI and workflow reimagining Qualifications
• 8-10 overall years of experience within tech, including industry experience in transformation function at a top-tier tech company
• Understanding of end-to-end financial processes (Quote-to-Cash, Record-to-Report, Source-to-Pay, Hire-to-Retire, etc.), business models, modern finance systems and internal controls for a large scale global technology company
• Extensive project management skills, including system implementations, international compliance initiatives and AI-enabled redesign
• Experience in implementing and managing complex, cross-functional programs within a technology company's finance or enterprise engineering organization
• Strong AI and Data & Analytics skillset including but not limited to building agentic workflows combined with efficient use of deterministic code (e.g. JIRA Query Language and Google Apps Script) for scaling project delivery
• Familiarity with Cognitive Project Management for AI (CPMAI) principles
• Proficiency with JIRA and Asana platforms
• Strong expertise in SAP (preferably RAR, BRIM / SD and S/4 HANA), SFDC (preferably CRM and CPQ)
• Deep understanding of financial systems for a large scale global technology company, with a focus on unification and harmonization as well as automation across these domains
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Hands-on and results oriented leader with problem solving…