Sr Manager, Finance (GTM)

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Job description

Job Description

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks is looking for an experienced finance professional to join its GTM Finance team as a Senior Finance Manager.

This position will support channels team with business insights and build operational rigor and efficiency. The channels team owns the governance, strategy, and global programs for our various Routes-to-Market, including via channel partners, global system integrators, cloud service providers, managed security service providers, and technology alliances.

In this role, you will own the financial planning, forecasting and reporting for channels and provide recommendations to your business partners within these key functional areas. You will also be responsible for key financial deliverables and ad hoc analyses.

We're looking for a self-starter with strong analytical skills, an effective communicator, and a leader passionate for driving change in a dynamic fast-paced environment.

Your Impact

Be a trusted finance partner to the channels leadership team and drive execution of their business priorities

Build cross-functional partnerships and lead through influence to help solve complex interdisciplinary problems on behalf of the business - Navigate across matrixed org structure and engage with senior executives across Finance, Theater, and Product teams to do so

Develop GTM metrics and publish financial packages for enhanced business performance visibility on a monthly and quarterly basis

Ensure prudence and financial rigor / ROI analysis on channel incentives and rebates, contractual arrangements with the partners, and in opex and headcount management

Lead the monthly/quarterly close process, focusing on data and insights that will help advance our channel, cloud service provider, and managed service provider routes-to-markets and partnerships from a top-line bookings perspective, as well as the management of headcount and spend

Financial business support including budgeting, forecasting, reporting, financial modeling and analysis, and annual planning

Lead strategic projects, including projects that require E2E operationalization of partner incentives and rebates programs

Improve operational excellence through identification and execution of initiatives that create efficiency, remove obstacles, or create improved processes and approaches to the business - This includes identifying ways in which tools can be built and deployed to improve workflows to drive automation, efficiency and increased accuracy

Collaborate as well as mentor colleagues in India, as we build our offshore muscle

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