Finance Manager, Revenue Forecasting

1 Day ago • 7 Years + • Finance • $116,000 PA - $188,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking an experienced Finance Business Manager, Corporate Finance, to join their team. The role involves providing key topline and profitability insights to drive executive decision-making at the corporate level. Responsibilities include leading initiatives for automating and scaling topline models, building financial planning models for revenue, RPO, and ARR, and becoming a business partner for topline metrics. The position requires developing and maintaining financial models for quarter closes, partnering with IT for reporting accuracy, and driving quantitative and qualitative analysis. The manager will also monitor monthly topline metrics, analyze forecast vs. actuals, and create reporting materials for executive leadership and stakeholders. This is an individual contributor role with potential for future team management.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Economics
  • 7+ years of related experience
  • Strong background in SaaS and Hardware revenue recognition (ASC-606)
  • Deep experience in financial planning software (e.g., Anaplan, Pigment, SAP)
  • Excellent financial modeling skills
  • Strong team player with excellent communication skills
Good to have:
  • Top-tier MBA strongly preferred
  • Prior Corporate FP&A experience
  • Familiarity with SAAS financial concepts
  • Ability to link big picture to details
  • Familiarity managing large datasets and applying statistical frameworks
  • Understanding of software, appliances, and/or internet industry business models
  • Willingness to adapt to rapid business changes
Perks:
  • FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account
  • Mental and financial health resources
  • Personalized learning opportunities

Job Details

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.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Job Description

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks is looking for an experienced finance professional to join the team as a Finance Business Manager, Corporate Finance. We’re looking for someone with an analytical mind and strong knowledge of finance, who is a self-starter, a great communicator and passionate about driving change in a dynamic fast-paced environment.

This role will be responsible for providing key topline and profitability insights that will drive executive decision-making at the corporate level. This is currently an individual contributor role with future potential for expansion into team management.

Your Impact

  • Lead initiatives to continuously automate and scale the topline models as we transition to our new forecasting tool
  • Understand and build the topline financial planning models (monthly forecasts, quarterly, annual, and long term plan) for key topline metrics including but not limited to Revenue, RPO, ARR in the forecasting tool
  • Become the business partner in understanding the company’s topline metrics
  • Develop and maintain close the quarter financial models to help the executive team understand where the topline metrics will close for the quarter
  • Partner with the IT team to ensure accuracy and integrity of reporting systems and dashboards. 
  • Drive coordination, organization, and execution of quantitative and qualitative analysis on topline metrics throughout the close the quarter process
  • Monitor monthly topline metrics and analyze forecast vs actuals to provide actionable insights to the leadership team
  • Create reporting materials for the executive leadership team, board, and other stakeholders

Qualifications

Your Experience 

  • Bachelor degree in Finance, Accounting, or economics; Top-tier MBA strongly preferred or equivalent military experience required
  • 7+ years related experience showing strong career progression; prior Corporate FP&A experience and/or familiarity with SAAS financial concepts a major plus
  • Strong background in SaaS and Hardware revenue recognition (ASC-606)
  • Possess deep experience financial planning software and ERP systems (e.g., Anaplan, Pigment, SAP)
  • Ability to link big picture to details with ease
  • Familiarity in managing large datasets, applying relevant statistical frameworks and concepts, and deriving executive-level insights
  • Excellent financial modeling skills, with understanding of software, appliances and/or internet industry business models
  • Strong team player with excellent communication skills in an executive facing role
  • Willingness and ability to adapt to the rapid business and organizational changes that accompany a high-growth environment

Additional Information

The Team

You have a passion for numbers, and our organization has a real passion for cybersecurity. You’re looking for a career with a more fulfilling mission. We have open positions to top talent seeking a financial challenge. Our finance department deals with numbers daily, supporting infrastructure, dealing in automation, and building elegant models and solutions to empower our business lines and solutions. If you’re seeking a financial challenge but with a worldwide impact, this is it.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $116000/YR - $188000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

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

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at  accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

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.

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

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Our enterprise security platform detects and prevents known and unknown threats while safely enabling an increasingly complex and rapidly growing number of applications. Come be part of the team that redefined the firewall industry and is now the fastest-growing security company in history. Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that is transforming the way people and organizations operate. Our mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We help address the world's greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, and orchestration. By delivering an integrated platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of partners, we are at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before.

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