Finance Manager

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.

Palo Alto Networks has an exciting opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated Finance Manager professional to join our team. In this role, you will report directly to the Director, Cortex & Cloud Finance and work with the Cortex & 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.

We are seeking a self-starter with strong analytical skills, a passion for driving change in a fast-paced environment, and an effective communicator – all-in-one.

As a Finance Manager, you will partner with GTM (Go-To-Market) and product leadership teams to provide valuable insights, and financial leadership to the Cortex business within Palo Alto Networks. Success 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.

Cortex is a family of products that safeguards organizations with proven endpoint security, detection, response, automation and attack surface management. More information about Cortex products can be found here.

Your Impact:

Financial Analysis and Planning:

• Develop and maintain comprehensive long-term financial models for the Cortex business, incorporating analytical, data-driven rigor to support planning and decision-making processes.
• Be a Strategist:
  You will have many opportunities to dig deeper into the business to provide actionable insights and recommendations through data analysis.

Business Partnership:

• Collaborate closely with Cortex leadership to derive insights, shape strategy, and drive actionable takeaways that align with organizational goals.
• Architect of visual presentation - your analytical, storytelling and design skills will be very handy for our monthly and quarterly performance review decks, as well as other custom business presentations to senior management

Financial Performance and Reporting:

• Own key Cortex & Cloud financial metrics, including ARR, Bookings, Revenue, Margins, Renewal rate, Customer Lifetime Value. You will own the process, build financial models, and identify key trends.
• Deliver monthly and quarterly quantitative and qualitative analyses of financial results, including variances to plan, highlighting key issues, risks, and actionable insights.

Process Improvement and Systems:

• Identify opportunities to enhance financial systems, processes, and controls to optimize efficiency and accuracy in financial reporting and analysis, including SaaS measurement and management.
• Contribute to and improve the planning and forecasting processes across the corporate finance organization, utilizing internal financial forecast models, systems, and tools

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics (or similar) preferred
• 5+ years of related experience with evidence of career progression. Prior SaaS experience is highly preferred. Prior Corporate FP&A experience and/or familiarity with US GAAP revenue standards for technology companies/SAAS companies is a plus
• Strong financial modeling capability; power Excel user
• Strong experience in managing large datasets, applying relevant statistical frameworks and concepts, and deriving executive-level insights.
• Strong experience with data analytics…