Your CareerPalo Alto Networks has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Manager, Program Management to join our finance, accounting and operations organization.Our finance, accounting and operations groups deal with everything touching the CFO organization, covering the numbers, supporting infrastructure, automation, building solutions and providing accurate, insightful financial information to empower our business lines. Your efforts will directly impact the overall transformation and success of a world-leading cybersecurity business. You’ll collaborate on complex business, financial and technology problems that are top-of-mind for our executives. You possess a unique blend of business insight, big-picture thinking, deep understanding of end-to-end financial processes and related systems, strong project management skills, ability to influence and collaborate with a large number of constituents within Palo Alto Networks. In this role, you’ll lead initiatives across finance, accounting and operations groups at Palo Alto Networks. The role will partner closely with our Center of Excellence (COE) and other subject matter experts and leaders within the finance, accounting and operations organization.A successful candidate for this role will be proactive, confident and solution-oriented, have a broad set of work experiences within a finance organization, will provide a strong voice to represent finance across the portfolio of initiatives - and will work collaboratively with finance, accounting and operations leaders and outside of Finance (IT, etc.). Additionally, they will support Finance COE initiatives and oversee enablement teams as they are stood up (e.g. change management, value / budgeting, transition, etc.). This will be an individual contributor role, reporting directly to the Head of CFO Program Ops. Your ImpactDrive change across the CFO organization and be willing to wear multiple hats (strategy development, project management and execution) to do what it takes to “move the needle”Assess current processes and use first principles to design future state business processes to create operational efficienciesWork collaboratively across a cross-functional set of stakeholders to gather the right information, pressure test hypotheses, articulate complex business problems, mobilize a project team, implement solutions and drive accountabilityStructure and size large complex projects into an executable planConduct financial analysis of a project to ensure it is viable and drives the appropriate return on investmentDevelop long-term roadmaps, detailed project plans, project success criteria and key metrics, change management strategies, communication plans and conduct post implementation reviews to ensure the value of a project was successfully unlockedCreate deliverables (business case memos, key decision documents, presentations, etc.) for executive level consumptionSupport Service Management Director with Service management, transition execution and knowledge management as part of Finance COE initiative
