Sr Manager Cloud Finance and Strategy

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.

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.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to drive real impact at the intersection of finance, technology, and strategy. You will be the Cloud Finance business partner to one of our largest and fastest growing product pillars. In this role you will work directly with senior product, engineering and other finance leaders to influence key decisions around our cloud hosting including and product strategy and help shape how we think about financial efficiency  example, you will own cloud spend forecasting, drive unit cost/economics analysis to enable decision making with Product leaders and lead negotiations with all the large Cloud Service Providers.

This role requires a highly experienced cross-functional collaborator who has Management Consulting or Product Finance experience with a passion for technology. If you're passionate about problem solving, thrive in cross-functional settings, and want to build a career at the intersection of Finance and Product —this is your chance.

• Strategic Thought Leadership: Be the thought partner to product and finance leadership, on cloud hosting strategy, cost optimization, unit cost / economics to enable business growth
• Data-Driven Insights: Develop and monitor critical success metrics, providing actionable insights that empower product and cross-functional teams to drive key business decisions
• Financial forecasting and planning: Drive alignment with all product teams and be responsible for Monthly Business Reviews, Monthly Forecast, Annual Planning, and Long-Range Planning
• Negotiate with Cloud Service Providers: to secure favorable terms and optimize long-term value
• Cloud Fin Ops Excellence: Define and lead Cloud Fin Ops initiatives, bringing industry best practices and mobilizing cross-functional teams to jointly deliver on our priorities

• 8+ years of experience in Management Consulting, Finance (especially product finance) or business analytics, ideally within the technology sector
• Collaboration: Demonstrated success working with product/engineering, finance and other cross-functional teams to drive change and impact
• Communication & Leadership: Exceptional presentation skills, with the ability to lead and clearly communicate complex ideas
• Analytical
  
  Skills:
  
  Experience in initiating and executing on analysis that generates new insights to enable decision making. Demonstrated ability of being the translator between finance and product, e.g. converting engineering actions into financial implications and hosting insights into engineer actions
• Bachelor or Advanced Degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• * Preferred (Not Required):
  * Fin Ops experience and/or Cloud certifications. Basic programing skills for data extraction. Experience with Looker, Tableau or other visualization tools

The Cloud Finance team is responsible for managing and optimizing cloud infrastructure spend, which is a critical strategic component to our cloud-delivered security offerings across the entire PANW portfolio and all Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). We directly manage CSP relationships to drive procurement optimizations through rate negotiations and committed/reserved usage discounts. Alongside a dedicated IT team, we build tooling and dashboards that provide all teams with cost and unit economics visibility, optimization recommendations, and best-practice sharing.

This function enables product teams…