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
At Palo Alto Networks, cloud infrastructure is essential to powering our industry-leading cloud-delivered security solutions-critical not only to product performance but also to driving margin efficiency. Our Cloud Finance team plays a mission-critical role in managing and optimizing cloud spend across the entire PANW portfolio, spanning all the major Cloud Service Providers (CSPs).
We are seeking a high-impact Cloud Finance Lead to help elevate our cloud financial management and drive greater efficiency at scale. In this role, you will own and lead the monthly cloud financial close, build and maintain long-term cloud spend forecasts, and serve as a strategic finance partner to senior product and finance leaders. You'll be at the forefront of negotiating multi-million-dollar cloud commitments, guiding key cloud hosting decisions, and shaping our financial strategy at scale.
This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of cloud economics, deal-making, and product strategy, with direct exposure to C-level leadership and significant influence over the direction of our cloud hosting strategy. You'll thrive here if you're passionate about FinOps, financial modeling, and driving operational efficiency in a dynamic fast-paced environment.
Your Impact
Lead the End-to-End Cloud Finance Monthly Close and Annual Planning Process: Own the process for cloud infrastructure spend, ensuring timely, accurate financial reporting and delivering actionable insights to senior leadership-including the CFO and Chief Product Officer. This includes preparing and consolidating cloud spend forecasts across teams, conducting budget vs. actual variance analysis, overseeing compliance reporting, and managing purchase order workflows.
Be the Strategic Cloud Finance Business Partner to Product Teams: Partner closely with product and engineering leadership-including the SVP of Engineering-to provide financial guidance on cloud forecasting and planning and help inform product decisions and drive accountability.
Own the Long-Term Cloud Spend Forecasting Models: Maintain and enhance the forecasting models that track cloud spend against multi-year hosting commitments. These models are critical for informing both strategic and day-to-day decisions around our cloud hosting strategy and financial risk management.
Drive Cloud Hosting Commercial Negotiations with CSPs: Lead financial modeling for cloud provider negotiations, owning the deal economics and presenting data-driven recommendations to executive leadership. Your analysis will directly influence our ability to optimize commercial terms and align cloud commitments with long-term business goals.
Manage and mentor a team to support you in the responsibilities laid out above.
Your Experience
Bachelor's in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or equivalent (e.g., CFA, MBA)
12 years of overall Finance experience ideally in SaaS industry and in Corporate Finance, FP&A, Strategic Finance or Business Partnership
Strong proficiency in Excel for financial modeling, variance analysis, and data-driven decision-making.
Strong analytical mindset with the ability to ensure accuracy and thoroughness in financial analysis and reporting. Ability to generate meaningful financial insights from large datasets and present findings to senior leadership.
Experience with finance business partnering. Demonstrated ability to collaborate and work cross-functionally in a matrixed organization.
Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage and influence senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
Preferred, but not required experience: Cloud Finance, Tableau, SAC, SQL
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 Cloud Center of Excellence and Data teams, 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 growth and bottom-line efficiency across all Cloud hosted products 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 $0 - $0/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here (http://benefits.paloaltonetworks.com/) .
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.
