Palo Alto Director Revenue Operations 

United States, California 

675802356

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

Your Impact

• Accounting & Controls
  • Manage specific areas of revenue accounting, including transactional, internal controls and SEC reporting
  • Evaluate current accounting practices and policies to ensure continuous improvement and meet current and future requirements
  • Lead the Company’s revenue close process, including management reporting metrics and, importantly, the accurate and timely reporting of revenue
  • Continually evaluate opportunities to drive greater efficiencies and effectiveness in processing and the close process while ensuring a balanced workload within the organization
• Operational Finance Leader & Thought Partner
  • Serves as a trusted advisor to the CAO and CFO, and other senior leaders on revenue accounting, financial reporting, process, systems and control matters
  • Serves as a key partner to the CAO and CFO on strategic business initiative by understanding and communicating the accounting and finance implications of various growth strategies and transactions
• Data Integrity
  • Provides robust data management practices with consistent definitions, ensuring Palo Alto Networks has a single view of the financial and business facts to support management decisions
• Team Leader
  • Lead a high-performing and high-potential team, serving as a strong positive leader, coach, and advisor who is willing to roll up his or her sleeves to work alongside the team and sharing process and technical expertise to continually improve the organization’s capabilities
  • Lead a team in multiple locations with employees and work performed in an international center of excellence. Instill a performance culture resulting in meaningful cross-functional business process transformation and automation to increase efficiency and effectiveness, as well as meeting the needs of a high growth business in multiple locations

Your Experience

• Senior Accounting Leadership
  • 12+ years of progressive accounting experience, ideally beginning in a Big Four public accounting firm
  • Recent experience as a Director of Revenue Accounting in complex public company settings is ideal. Public company/SEC reporting, revenue recognition, SOX compliance experiences are required
• Relevant Organizational Experience
  • Experience working in a publicly traded, global company with a team geographically disbursed
  • Experience building and up-leveling high-performing accounting and controls organizations
• Revenue Recognition
  • Expert in ASC 606 revenue recognition accounting principles within enterprise and SaaS / software companies
• Driving Results
  • Create a clear strategic vision for the team supporting Palo Alto Networks’ business objectives and executing on that to ensure the business meets and surpasses its goals
  • Demonstrate a strong sense of urgency in meeting targets, routinely benchmarking his or her own work and the team’s work to drive operational excellence
  • Proactively seek to improve processes and implement best in class solutions, raise quality and productivity
• Leading People
  • Engage the accounting team to understand Palo Alto Networks’ direction and organizational vision and how accounting contributes to larger, strategic goals
  • Comfortable leading a diverse international team
• Collaborating and Influencing
  • Partner cross-functionally with a genuine give-and-take approach, where both act as true peers and decisions are shared to further Palo Alto Networks
  • Spend time identifying all stakeholders necessary and meet or connect with all of them, be inclusive to shape a collective consensus
• Education and Professional Credentials
  • An undergraduate degree in accounting, finance, economics, or a related field is preferred or equivalent military experience
  • CPA is required
• Other Role Attributes
  • High level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency and results orientation
  • Personal drive, energy and the ability to work effectively in a hands-on action-oriented environment
  • An executive who values and promotes a culture of accountability—both for himself/herself and for others
  • Strong communication skills - able to convey a message that is clear and concise, linking business issues, accounting concepts, financial results and strategy
  • Possess a growth mindset with experience in a hyper-growth environment
  • Promotes a work environment of passion, fun and excitement

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 $192000 - $264500/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.