Palo Alto Senior Financial Analyst Services Finance 

United States, California 

277642435

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

Success in this role requires strong analytical and communication skills, financial acumen, and a passion for optimizing spend while supporting business growth.

Your Impact

• Work in a fast-paced team environment to drive top-line growth and deliver bottom-line profitability with a focus on maximizing shareholder value

• Improve business performance by providing insightful reports, dashboards, analyses, and models. Drive accountability for business results utilizing operational and financial metrics

• Actively manage and provide in-depth analysis of expenses and headcount, identifying trends, variances, and opportunities for optimization to support strategic decision-making.

• Ongoing focus on efficiency gains with models to optimize global resource allocation to meet customer and growth requirements

• Continuously explore enhancements and automation across our portfolio of reports, analytics and dashboards to ensure accuracy and increase efficiency

• Drive key projects and engage in AI related initiatives to improve business and financial results. Analyze and report the drivers and outcomes.

• Work closely with the Sr. Finance manager to support Tech Services functional executives to scale with company growth and ensure achievement of business and financial objectives

• Partner with cross-functional teams (Tech Services leadership, Corporate Finance, Accounting, IT, and Operations) to ensure alignment on goals and accurate financial tracking

Your Experience

• 5+ years of experience in FP&A and finance business partnering, preferably within the high-tech industry working with large datasets, consolidating, analyzing and creating data-driven models

• Deep understanding of financial fundamentals including Profit and Loss (P&L) management, headcount planning, ROI analysis and accounting principles

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify data requirements and interpret complex financial data and metrics

• Strong business acumen and ability to communicate financial concepts clearly to non-financial stakeholders

• Passion for solving complex business problems using a variety of analytics tools

• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally in a highly-matrixed international organizational structure

• Experience with financial systems (e.g. SAP, SAC), BI tools (e.g. Tableau, Power BI), and G-suite applications.

Preferred

• Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field; MBA preferred

• Prior experience supporting Customer Services functions (e.g., Technical Support, Professional Services, or Customer Success)

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 $97,000 - $156,000YR. 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.