Senior Manager, FP&A, Cloud Delivered Security Services (CDSS)

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 Cloud Delivered Security Services (CDSS) 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 CDSS 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 strategic partner and provide thought leadership to the CDSS product leadership team. Collaborate closely with product management engineering sales and Go-to-Market teams 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 CDSS business units 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 CDSS market and its impact on financial performance.

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• 10 years of FP&A experience ideally supporting high-growth Product organizations in the high-tech SaaS or cybersecurity domain.

• Exceptional business partnering and influencing skills with a track record of linking high-level strategic vision to detailed execution and financial outcomes.

• Proven mastery in complex data analysis insight extraction and visualization capable of dissecting large datasets to deliver actionable recommendations.

• Ability to serve as a trusted advisor to Product Leadership providing thought leadership and proactive financial guidance.

• A strong growth mindset and intellectual curiosity regarding business operations product roadmaps and evolving cybersecurity market dynamics.

• Advanced financial modeling skills and experience with BI tools (SQL strongly preferred).

• A Bachelors degree in Engineering Economics Business Finance or a related quantitative field. MBA or equivalent advanced degree is strongly preferred.

Additional Information :

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) is expected to be between $151000 - $244000/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

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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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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time