Senior Data Analyst (Cloud Finance)

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, everything we do is driven by our mission:

To be the cybersecurity partner of choice, safeguarding our digital lifestyle.

Our aim is a world that is safer and more secure with each passing day. We are a company built on challenging and disrupting the status quo, and we're seeking innovators as dedicated to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Our Work Approach

We prioritize flexibility and choice in all our people-related programs. We've disrupted the traditional view that all employees have identical needs and desires. We offer always customizable programs, giving our employees the chance to select what suits them best - from your wellness support to your career progression, and beyond.

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of teamwork and value face-to-face interactions. Therefore, our employees typically work from the office for three days a week, allowing for two days of choice and flexibility to work in the setting where they are most productive. This structure promotes casual conversation, problem-solving, and the building of trusted relationships. While specifics may change, our objective is to foster an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams collaborating and succeeding together three days a week.

Job Description

Your Career

Cloud infrastructure is a vital strategic part of our cloud security offerings. The Cloud Finance team manages cloud expenses across the entire PANW portfolio and all Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), directly managing our relationships with our CSPs and driving procurement efficiency through price negotiations and savings via committed/reserved access discounts. Working alongside a close-knit cross-functional team with CloudOps and IT, we develop tools and dashboards to provide teams with visibility into usage optimization opportunities and cloud unit economics. This enables teams to make the best strategic business decisions and present company executives with insightful, proactive recommendations to drive both top-line and bottom-line growth across various company portfolios.

Your Impact

• Support Finance teams with data extraction, clean-up, and analysis to facilitate business decision making and negotiations with cloud service providers (e.g., impact of different CSP pricing changes, cloud service usage patterns, etc.)
• Collaborate with Central IT for financial data validation and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) on central dashboards
• Drive cost optimization initiatives by cooperating with Finance and Engineering teams across the organization, understanding product architecture, recommending, and purchasing reserved instances & savings plans across Azure, AWS, and GCP
• Carry out strategic and financial planning and BVA processes (e.g., Monthly Business Reviews, Forecasts, Annual Budget, and Long Range Plan)
• Quantify cloud hosting costs per product and assess the impact of new product releases

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Engineering or Technical Degrees (BE/B.Tech/ME/M.Tech/M.Sc/MCA) or equivalent military proficiency
• 5+ years of relevant experience in querying data using SQL and consolidating, transforming, and analyzing large data sets in excel
• Proven ability to analyze large and complex data sets to identify trends and derive meaningful insights
• Expertise in BI solutions like Tableau or Looker. Experience in building simple dashboards is preferred
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally in a matrix-style organizational structure
• Experience with public cloud offerings, specifically Google Cloud, but also including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud. Ability to analyze cloud data or bills and assist teams in spotting anomalies
• FinOps experience and certification is preferred

Additional Information

The Team

We're the global cybersecurity leaders, recognized for consistently challenging the security status quo.

Our mission is to protect our way of life in the digital age by preventing successful cyber attacks. We have been granted the privilege of securing tens of thousands of organizations and their customers. Our game-changing Security Operating Platform fosters their digital transformation and enables continuous innovation that leverages the latest advances in security, automation, and analytics. By offering a true platform and nurturing a growing ecosystem of changemakers like us, we provide highly effective and innovative cybersecurity across clouds, networks, and mobile devices.

Our Commitment

We are pioneers who dream big, take risks, and challenge the status quo in cybersecurity. It boils down to this: we can’t achieve our mission without diverse teams engaged in innovation, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable provisions for all qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require assistance or accommodation due to disability or special need, please contact us at .

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.