Senior FP&A Manager

Job Summary

Palo Alto Networks is looking for a highly skilled professional to join its Finance team as an FP&A Manager reporting to the Senior Director of Finance. This individual will support the team with financial reporting, modeling, monthly/quarterly close cycles, forecasting, annual planning, and ad-hoc financial projects and analyses. Success in this role requires a self-starter with strong problem-solving and analytical skills, a passion for driving change in a fast-paced environment, and the ability to collaborate cross-functionally with various departments.

• Work in a fast-paced team environment to drive top-line growth and deliver bottom-line profitability with a focus on maximizing shareholder value.
• Business partner with senior executives in the customer service organization. Improve business performance by providing insightful reports, dashboards, analyses, and models. Drive accountability for business results utilizing operational and financial metrics.
• Engage in long-range planning, annual planning, and monthly forecast. Drive sustainable and profitable business growth with a focus on bookings and full P&L.
• Ongoing focus on efficiency gains with models to optimize global resource allocation to meet customer and growth requirements.
• Continuously explore enhancements and automation across our portfolio of reports, analytics and dashboards to ensure accuracy and increase efficiency.
• Drive key projects and engage in AI-related initiatives to improve business and financial results. Analyze and report the outcomes and drivers.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including leadership, operations, Corporate Finance, IT and accounting, to ensure that financial data supports informed decision-making and strategic goals.

• 5+ years of experience in high-tech FP&A or business support roles working with large datasets, consolidating, analyzing, and creating data-driven models.
• Finance knowledge: e.g., Profit and Loss and other financial statements, accounting principles, and return on investment evaluation.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify data requirements and interpret complex financial data and metrics.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders.
• Passion for solving complex business problems using a variety of analytics tools.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally in a highly matrixed international organizational structure.

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience. MBA preferred.
• Experience with financial systems (e.g., SAP, SAC), BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI), and G‑suite applications is preferred.
• Experience providing finance support to a Customer Services delivery organization (e.g., Technical Support, Professional Services, Customer Success) or Customer Services Operations team is a plus.

The base salary range is $ - $ per year. Compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus.

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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