Senior Finance Manager, Next Generation Firewall

Job Description
Your Career
Do you have leadership skills, strong finance experience supporting a software sales team and the ability to drive strategic insights? Looking to make a difference in a growth business environment?
We are looking for a Senior Finance Manager to support the Next Generation Firewall business unit. This role will report to the Strata Business Unit CFO. Working with the Sales, Product Management &
Operations teams, you will provide insightful and trusted counsel to Product Mgmt, Sales Strategy and Operations leadership on financial and broad-based business issues related to Short and Long-term strategic planning and business performance monitoring.
The ideal candidate is a self-starter, strategic thinker, great communicator, and enjoys leading finance initiatives and collaborating with people with a diverse set of talents in a fast-paced environment.
Your Impact
Key finance business partner to the Sr. Vice President, Firewall
Effective at establishing a “seat at the table” with the leadership team and is considered a critical member of that leadership team.
Participation in business reviews with Senior Leadership team including the ability to convey key messages through effective presentation skills.
Strong understanding of business model with demonstrated ability in effectively guiding business proposals for pricing and compensation incentives.
Recommend benchmarks for measuring financial and operating performance. Develop and enhance necessary dashboards to track key metrics and business performance to drive business decisions.
Provides financial insight to the business in assessing risk and opportunities to achieving its financial commitments. This includes establishing insightful analytics that enable the business to “see around corners” or better anticipate the future.
Design and implement financial processes that deliver consistent and predictable results that link operational performance to the P&
L, both top line and margins.
Proactively collaborates across multifunctional teams to create an environment that strives for global consistency of best practices identified both internally and externally to the organization.
Provides financial leadership to meet deliverables during various financial cycles including monthly close, quarterly business reviews, monthly forecast and annual operating plan cycles and other ad hoc requests.
Work closely with other members of the central and corporate finance team to ensure financial impacts of various business decisions are understood, aligned, and communicated – examples include Corporate FP&
A, Central Sales and Marketing, and Global Shared Services.