Palo Alto Senior Finance Manager Cloud 

United States, California 

726635854

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Your Career

We are seeking a high-impact to help elevate our cloud financial management and drive greater efficiency at scale. In this role, you will own and lead the monthly cloud financial close, build and maintain long-term cloud spend forecasts, and serve as a strategic finance partner to senior product and finance leaders. You’ll be at the forefront of negotiating multi-million-dollar cloud commitments, guiding key cloud hosting decisions, and shaping our financial strategy at scale.

Your Impact

• Lead the End-to-End Cloud Finance Monthly Close and Annual Planning Process: Own the process for cloud infrastructure spend, ensuring timely, accurate financial reporting and delivering actionable insights to senior leadership—including the CFO and Chief Product Officer. This includes preparing and consolidating cloud spend forecasts across teams, conducting budget vs. actual variance analysis, overseeing compliance reporting, and managing purchase order workflows.

• Be the Strategic Cloud Finance Business Partner to Product Teams: Partner closely with product and engineering leadership—including the SVP of Engineering—to provide financial guidance on cloud forecasting and planning and help inform product decisions and drive accountability.

• Own the Long-Term Cloud Spend Forecasting Models: Maintain and enhance the forecasting models that track cloud spend against multi-year hosting commitments. These models are critical for informing both strategic and day-to-day decisions around our cloud hosting strategy and financial risk management.

• Drive Cloud Hosting Commercial Negotiations with CSPs: Lead financial modeling for cloud provider negotiations, owning the deal economics and presenting data-driven recommendations to executive leadership. Your analysis will directly influence our ability to optimize commercial terms and align cloud commitments with long-term business goals.

• Manage and mentor a team to support you in the responsibilities laid out above.

Your Experience

• 8+ years of overall Finance experience ideally in SaaS industry and in Corporate Finance, FP&A, Strategic Finance or Business Partnership

• Bachelor’s or Master's in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or equivalent (e.g., CFA, MBA)

• Strong proficiency in Excel for financial modeling, variance analysis, and data-driven decision-making.

• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to ensure accuracy and thoroughness in financial analysis and reporting. Ability to generate meaningful financial insights from large datasets and present findings to senior leadership.

• 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: Cloud Finance, Tableau, SAC, SQL

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

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 $0 - $0/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.