Senior Manager, FP&A

undefined ago • 10 Years + • Financial Analysis • $165,000 PA - $210,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a highly motivated Senior Manager, FP&A to lead financial planning and analysis for their Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) product business unit. This critical role involves developing sophisticated financial models, providing actionable insights, and serving as a strategic partner to leadership. The successful candidate will conduct in-depth performance analysis, contribute to strategic planning, and continuously improve FP&A processes. This individual contributor role requires strong analytical skills, business acumen, and a growth mindset to optimize financial outcomes in a high-growth environment.
Must have:
  • Develop and maintain sophisticated financial models to support strategic planning, forecasting, and budgeting for the SASE business unit.
  • Analyze Pipeline, Bookings, ARR, Churn and COGS.
  • Leverage strong analytical skills to dissect large and complex datasets, providing actionable insights to drive business performance.
  • Serve as a trusted financial advisor and strategic partner to the SASE product leadership team.
  • Collaborate closely with product management, engineering, sales, and marketing to understand business initiatives, evaluate financial implications, and provide recommendations.
  • Conduct in-depth analysis of financial performance against budget, forecast, and prior periods.
  • Identify key trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement.
  • Present clear and concise financial reports and presentations to executive leadership.
  • Contribute to the long-range strategic planning process, translating business strategies into financial targets and roadmaps.
  • Perform competitive benchmarking.
  • Continuously seek opportunities to enhance FP&A processes, tools, and methodologies to improve efficiency and accuracy.
  • Take full ownership of the SASE business unit's financial health.
  • Proactively identify risks and opportunities, and drive initiatives to optimize financial outcomes.
  • Demonstrate a growth mindset by continuously seeking to learn about the evolving SASE market and its impact on financial performance.
Good to have:
  • MBA preferred
  • Experience with AI use cases in finance is a strong plus
Perks:
  • FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items
  • Mental health resources
  • Financial health resources
  • Personalized learning opportunities
  • Restricted stock units
  • Bonus

Job Details

Job Description

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Manager, FP&A to join our team and lead financial planning and analysis for our cutting-edge Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) product business unit. This is a critical role for an individual who thrives on strong analytical challenges, possesses an insatiable curiosity for understanding business drivers, and demonstrates a true ownership mindset in a high-growth environment. This is currently an individual contributor role with future potential for expansion into team management.

Your Impact

  • Financial Modeling & Analytics: Develop and maintain sophisticated financial models to support strategic planning, forecasting, and budgeting for the SASE business unit. This includes detailed analysis of Pipeline, Bookings, ARR, Churn and COGS. Leverage strong analytical skills to dissect large and complex datasets, providing actionable insights to drive business performance.
  • Business Partnership: Serve as a trusted financial advisor and strategic partner to the SASE product leadership team. Collaborate closely with product management, engineering, sales, and marketing to understand business initiatives, evaluate financial implications, and provide recommendations that align with company objectives.
  • Performance Analysis: Conduct in-depth analysis of financial performance against budget, forecast, and prior periods. Identify key trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement. Present clear and concise financial reports and presentations to executive leadership.
  • Strategic Planning: Contribute to the long-range strategic planning process, translating business strategies into financial targets and roadmaps and performing competitive benchmarking.
  • Process Improvement: Continuously seek opportunities to enhance FP&A processes, tools, and methodologies to improve efficiency and accuracy. Experience with AI use cases in finance is a strong plus.
  • Growth and Ownership: Take full ownership of the SASE business unit's financial health, proactively identifying risks and opportunities, and driving initiatives to optimize financial outcomes. Demonstrate a growth mindset by continuously seeking to learn about the evolving SASE market and its impact on financial performance.

Qualifications

Your Experience

  • Bachelor degree in Engineering/Economics/Business/Finance or related field 10+ years of FP&A experience, ideally supporting product organizations in high-tech; MBA preferred.
  • Exceptional business partnering and influencing skills, linking big-picture strategy to detailed execution.
  • Proven expertise in complex data analysis, insight extraction, and clear data presentation.
  • Curious about business operations, product roadmaps, and cybersecurity market dynamics, with a strong growth mindset.
  • Advanced financial modeling skills and experience with BI tools (SQL strongly preferred).
  • Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills; strong team player.
  • Independent, enthusiastic about solving unstructured questions, and adapts to rapid changes in high-growth environments.

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 $165,000 - $210,000/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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