Manager Financial Systems

Your Career

Reporting to the Manager FP&A Systems and Transformation the person in this role will own the SAP Analytics Cloud tool and will support critical FP&A processes including budget forecast close management reporting etc. This role requires a keen attention to detail ability to work in a fastpaced environment with many changing and competing priorities. 

As the admin of FP&As planning and budgeting tool the person in this role will be responsible for managing integration consolidation and refresh cycles in support of close forecast and budget cycles and will act as the first line of support for incoming requests and troubleshooting.

In partnership with Palo Alto Networks broader FP&A team this role will play a key role in developing standardized and scalable reporting solutions.

The successful candidate will have systems focused experience used for planning and reporting (e.g. SAP Analytics Cloud Tableau etc) in a corporate finance environment.

Your Impact

• The candidate will have a proven track record of partnership and delivering results and will be passionate about enabling financial processes modeling reporting and analysis through BI technologies
• Serve as administrator and expert user of SAP Analytics Cloud and act as primary point of contact for troubleshooting and support to the broader FP&A team
• Maintain data integrity across systems to ensure the FP&A planning tool (SAP Analytics Cloud) is accurate for actuals data hierarchies cost centers product codes general ledger accounts etc
• Create reporting templates input forms dashboards etc
• Using source data to provide visualization to the enduser
• Manage integration and refresh cycles that meet the users needs with emphasis during the close and forecast cycles
• Understand the FP&A teams current reporting system and identify and lead areas of improvement and simplification
• Develop and support ongoing user training to ensure all functional users understand the application capabilities and leverage system capabilities to deliver the optimal user experience to the Finance team
• Ad hoc modeling analysis and reporting as required

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• Bachelors Degree in Business Administration Management Information Systems Finance Accounting related field or equivalent work experience or equivalent military experience required
• Minimum 8 years experience with financial systems (SAP Analytics Cloud Hyperion Essbase Anaplan or similar)
• Basic accounting and finance knowledge
• Experience in requirements gathering and translating business requirements to technical stories understanding of unit testing/QA/reconciliation ability to build and demo proof of concept reports/models
• Basic understanding of SQL (GCP Oracle other relational databases)
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills with the ability to impart ideas in both technical and userfriendly language
• Highly motivated and driven a selfstarter with keen attention to detail and the ability to multitask in a fastpaced environment
• Excellent analytical and problemsolving skills
• Familiarity with data and systems governance processes
• Passion for Data BI and analytics to drive business value
• Superb attention to detail and a strong commitment to data integrity. Ability to manage multiple deliverables and competing priorities
• Comfortable working with ambiguity in a dynamic fastpaced environment
• Hungry and humble attitude a personal growth and development mindset and win as a team mentality

Additional Information :

The Team

Youre looking for a career with a more fulfilling mission. We have open positions to top talent seeking a challenge. Our finance department performs deep analyses to understand the business and inform the strategic direction of the company. The ideal candidate has exceptional leadership skills knowledge of financial modeling business acumen and an innovative mindset to approach problems differently. Our innovation doesnt stay in Research and Development. Within finance we seek people who are looking to try new things while solving business critical equations. If youre seeking a challenge with a worldwide impact this is it.

Our Commitment

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