Senior Manager, Ecosystems Finance

Job Description
Your Career
Palo Alto Networks is looking for an experienced finance professional to join its Ecosystems Finance team as a Senior Finance Manager. You will provide business insight and financial support to the SVP, Chief Partnerships Officer, who 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.
A successful candidate is 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 Partnerships 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 RTM (route-to-market) metrics and publish financial packages for enhanced business performance visibility on a monthly and quarterly basis
Ensure prudence and financial rigor / ROI analysis on program funds management, channel and partner incentives and rebates, contractual arrangements with partners, and in opex and headcount management
Lead the monthly/quarterly close process, focusing on data and insights that will help advance our channel, global system integrator, 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 for the Partnerships org
Financial business support including budgeting, forecasting, reporting, financial modeling and analysis, and annual planning for Ecosystems
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