Senior Financial Analyst GCS Finance
Senior Financial Analyst GCS Finance
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Job Description
Your Career
Palo Alto Networks is looking for a highly skilled professional to join its Global Customer Services (GCS) Finance team as a Senior Financial Analyst reporting to the Senior Manager of GCS Finance. This individual will support the team with financial reporting modeling monthly/quarterly close cycles forecasting annual planning and adhoc financial projects and analyses. Success in this role requires a selfstarter with strong problemsolving and analytical skills a passion for driving change in a fastpaced environment and the ability to collaborate crossfunctionally with various departments.
Your Impact
- Work in a fastpaced team environment to drive topline growth and deliver bottomline 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
- Simplify and automate existing finance processes
- Drive efficiencies to maximize the teams ability to focus on high valueadded strategic initiatives
- Develop and present highquality recommendations and deliverables (PPT etc.) for executivelevel consumption and contribute to strategy and execution plans
- Drive key projects and engage in AI related initiatives to improve business and financial results
- Analyze and report the drivers and outcomes
- Work crossfunctionally across our team supporting a diverse set of activities
Qualifications :
Your Experience
- 5 years of experience in hightech FP&A or business support roles working with large datasets consolidating analyzing and creating datadriven models
- Knowledge of finance fundamentals i.e. Profit and Loss (P&L) and other financial Statements Accounting Principles and Return on Investment evaluation
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify data requirements and interpret complex financial data and metrics
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain financial concepts to nonfinancial stakeholders
- Passion for solving complex business problems using a variety of analytics tools
- Ability to multitask stay organized and prioritize deadlines in a fastpaced environment
- Demonstrated ability to work crossfunctionally in a highlymatrixed international organizational structure
Preferred
- Masters degree in Finance Accounting Economics or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience or equivalent military experience MBA preferred
- Experience with financial systems (e.g. SAP SAC) BI tools (e.g. Tableau Power BI) and Gsuite applications is preferred
- Experience providing Finance support to a Customer Services delivery organization (e.g. Technical Support Professional Services Customer Success) or Customer Services Operations team is a plus
Additional Information :
The Team
The Global Customer Services (GCS) Finance team partners with Palo Alto Networks GCS business unit (Technical Support Professional Services and Customer Success) to enable success by driving efficient growth and maximizing profitability. We manage the endtoend financials and reporting deliverables annual and longterm planning processes and multiperiod forecasting cycles using analytics and tools to achieve business and financial objectives.
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 nonsales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $97000 $156000/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
Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need please contact us at .
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.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
