Sr Financial Analyst, Cloud Finance - Palo Alto Networks

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks is looking for a smart individual professional to join its Cloud Finance team as a Senior Financial Analyst reporting to Senior Manager of Cloud Finance and AI. This individual will partner with product engineering leader to drive cost optimization initiatives. Being successful in this role requires problem-solving skills, self-starter with strong analytical skills, a passion for driving change in a fast-paced environment, and an effective communicator.

Your Impact

• Help identify optimization opportunities, such as unused/underutilized resources, by analyzing usage patterns and aligning with product stakeholders on future usage
• Monitor and optimize committed use discount coverage for both GCP and AWS
• Support Finance teams on data extraction, clean-up and analysis to enable business decision making and negotiations with cloud service providers (e.g. impact of various CSP pricing changes, cloud service usage patterns etc.)
• Drive new initiatives and assist with special projects and ad hoc requests
• Partner with cross-functional business partners and CSP vendor to implement best practices, automation, and continuous process improvements

Your Experience 

• 3+ years of experience working with large datasets, consolidating, transforming, analyzing and creating data-driven models - Ability to query data using SQL
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify data required and interpret complex financial data and metrics
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders
• Enthusiast about solving complex business problems with a variety of analytics tools
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally in a matrixed organizational structure

Preferred

• Experience and knowledge in the public cloud especially for GCP and AWS. Understanding of cloud economics and pricing models
• Experience in FinOps, cloud financial management or similar role
• Experience in BI solutions like Tableau or Looker - Experience building simple dashboards
• Master’s degree in Management Information Systems, Statistics, Finance, Economics, OR equivalent combination of education and relevant experience OR equivalent military experience required

The Team

Cloud infrastructure is a critical strategic component to our cloud delivered security offerings. The Cloud Finance team manages cloud spend across the whole PANW portfolio and across Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). We directly manage relationships with our CSPs and drive procurement optimizations via rate negotiations and committed/reserved usage discounts.  Working alongside a tight-knit cross-functional group with CloudOps and IT, we build tooling and dashboards to provide teams with visibility into usage optimization opportunities and cloud unit economics, enabling teams to make the best strategic business decisions and providing Executive Staff with insightful, proactive recommendations to drive both topline and bottom-line growth across various portfolios within the Company. 

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 $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

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t 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  accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

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.