Senior Manager, Fp&a

Company Description
**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.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback - it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

**Job Description**:
**Your Career**

Palo Alto Networks is looking for an experienced Senior Manager FP&A to shape priorities and investments helping JAPAC achieve scalable growth. Leveraging a deep understanding of our operating model and long term goals to provide strategic advice and analysis, you will be a trusted reference on the state of the business and contribute to our overall strategy.

As part of the JAPAC Finance team, you will be the primary point of contact for our product business units and analytics teams. Bringing the rigor and diligence of finance, you will help standardize reporting, planning and analysis to trigger ideas and business discussions that ensure we’re channeling our investment towards the right priorities.

We expect office-based employees to be in the office four days per week, with one day working from where they choose. We believe being together facilitates casual conversations and those magic moments where we can work on issues and ideas informally. These moments build capability and deepen trusted relationships and allow our people to feel safe in taking risks and being disruptive. Like so many companies, we are working through the details and things could change. but in general if a role is deemed office-based we want our teams to be together four days per week.

**Your Impact**
- Leverage past experience in FP&A and business partnering to drive cross-functional alignment between functions, theaters, and business units
- Break down complex business dynamics with structured analysis, identify opportunities for growth and deliver recommendations
- Lead annual planning and quarterly business reviews for JAPAC Finance
- Develop and maintain a discount management framework for Finance to evaluate deal exception requests
- Ensure ongoing accountability of sales teams with performance management reporting that monitors progress towards goals
- Navigate matrix organization for efficient and effective outcomes
- Identify process improvement opportunities in the field whilst ensuring we meet stakeholder and policy requirements
- Coach and mentor support functions across finance and operations in the theater and corporate to align goals and create collaborative working relationships
- Support projects that drive automated solutions for exceptional customer experience for Sales, Deals Desk, Revenue, Finance and Legal

**Qualifications**:
**Your Experience**
- 8+ years of experience working in a tech environment in a financial or a sales operations role
- Leadership qualities with demonstrated capability to build strong working relationships with internal business units
- Ability to work independently and able to prioritize in a fast-paced environment with multiple, changing objectives
- Commercial acumen developed through ongoing engagement with sales and marketing teams
- Effective presentation skills with the ability to communicate complex topics in a distilled manner
- Excellent analytical and financial modeling skills - Power Excel user who is comfortable with large data sets
- Deadline-driven, organized, with willingness to adapt to the rapid business and organizational demands that result from a high-growth environment

Additional Information
**The Team**

Our People team at Palo Alto Networks works throughout the organization to enable...you guessed it, people. We’re one team - driven to one mission statement. Each piece matters, and within the people team, you are focused on enabling our teams to resolve the world’s most challenging cybersecurity threats.

You will be part of a growing, passionate, and dynamic team with an opportunity to work on challenging and exciting projects - centered on what we believe is one of the most significant mission statements in the world.

**Our Commitment**

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.