Job Description

Your Career

Reporting to the Manager, FP&A Systems and Transformation, the person in this role will own the SAP Analytics Cloud tool and will support critical FP&A processes, including budget, forecast, close, management reporting, etc. This role requires a keen attention to detail, ability to work in a fast-paced environment with many changing and competing priorities.

As the admin of FP&A’s planning and budgeting tool, the person in this role will be responsible for managing integration, consolidation, and refresh cycles in support of close, forecast and budget cycles, and will act as the first line of support for incoming requests and troubleshooting.

In partnership with Palo Alto Networks broader FP&A team, this role will play a key role in developing standardized and scalable reporting solutions.

The successful candidate will have systems focused experience used for planning and reporting (e.g. SAP Analytics Cloud, Tableau, etc) in a corporate finance environment.

Your Impact

• The candidate will have a proven track record of partnership and delivering results and will be passionate about enabling financial processes, modeling, reporting, and analysis through BI technologies
• Serve as administrator and expert user of SAP Analytics Cloud and act as primary point of contact for troubleshooting and support to the broader FP&A team
• Maintain data integrity across systems to ensure the FP&A planning tool (SAP Analytics Cloud) is accurate for actuals, data hierarchies, cost centers, product codes, general ledger accounts, etc
• Create reporting templates, input forms, dashboards, etc
• Using source data to provide visualization to the end-user
• Manage integration and refresh cycles that meet the users’ needs, with emphasis during the close and forecast cycles
• Understand the FP&A team’s current reporting system and identify and lead areas of improvement and simplification
• Develop and support ongoing user training to ensure all functional users understand the application capabilities and leverage system capabilities to deliver the optimal user experience to the Finance team
• Ad hoc modeling, analysis, and reporting, as required