Palo Alto Finance Manager Cloud 

United States, California 

152521980

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

• Lead the end-to-end monthly cloud finance close process, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting
• Manage the preparation and consolidation of monthly cloud hosting spend forecasts, ensuring alignment with company financial goals
• Conduct budget variance analysis and compliance reporting to ensure financial alignment with business objectives
• Provide regular cloud cost reporting to senior leadership, including the CFO and CPO, offering insights into cloud expenditure trends
• Oversee purchase order administration, collaborating with Accounts Payable and Cloud Service Providers to resolve billing discrepancies
• Drive continuous process improvements to enhance team efficiency, forecasting accuracy, and reporting quality
• Support ad-hoc projects and strategic initiatives (e.g. unit economics, cost optimizations, long-term cloud spend forecasting, cloud service provider (CSP) negotiation modeling)
• Serve as a strategic cloud finance partner to cross-functional teams, offering insights on budgeting, optimization, and analytics to drive informed business decisions

Your Experience

• 5+ years of overall Finance experience ideally in SaaS industry and in Corporate Finance, FP&A, Strategic Finance or Business Partnership
• Strong proficiency in Excel for financial modeling, variance analysis, and data-driven decision-making
• Ability to generate meaningful financial insights from large datasets and present findings to senior leadership
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to ensure accuracy and thoroughness in financial analysis and reporting
• Demonstrated strength in problem solving - ability to break down problems into easy to follow and logical steps and show end-to-end ownership
• Experience with finance business partnering - Demonstrated ability to collaborate and work cross-functionally in a matrixed organization
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage and influence senior leadership and cross-functional teams
• Preferred, but not required experience
  • Tableau, SAC, SQL

Education

• Bachelor’s in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or equivalent (e.g., CFA, MBA) or equivalent military experience
• FinOps / Cloud Certification a plus, but not required

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 - $188000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

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