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Senior IT Analyst - SAC

Palo Alto Networks

Remote,

Senior IT Analyst - SAC

Palo Alto Networks

Remote,
 

Job Description

Your Career  

We are looking for a motivated, intelligent, hardworking and creative individual to work with our Finance Systems who is responsible for taking on SAC analysis to solve strategic high-value business problems, seek opportunities for cost optimization, drive operational efficiency, and work on ongoing improvement activities.  

Using your experience in SAC, you are expected to develop system solutions and provide solutions for the Finance business function.  You will be partnering with cross-functional teams both on IT and business functions to drive process automation, efficiency, scalability and consistency to support business growth.  In addition, you will also drive project delivery, enhancement prioritization  across various finance priorities delivering high business value and in the process foster great partnerships. By partnering with key stakeholders across the finance and other cross functional organizations, applying leading practices, help transform the finance business function to adopt new technologies and drive to be the best in class.

Your Impact  

  • Develop ad-hoc reporting and provide analysis to support business decision-making processes  

  • Collaborate with Business stakeholders and IT teams to help understand opportunity areas of optimization and growth

  • Develop SAP Analytics Cloud roadmap, manage deadlines and deliver projects on time with high quality

  • Collaborate with the cross-functional team to develop integrated SAC solution to support business processes, executing project deliverables, with an emphasis on quality, productivity, and consistency

  • Help drive our Finance digital transformation Product roadmap, drive automation, scalability and efficiency

  • Use data to discover opportunities, track product performance and support decision-making

  • Collaborate across teams. We win or lose as a team. Play a critical role in creating alignment across the cross-functional Leadership team

  • Communicate clearly and efficiently. Coordinate product release communications and drive transformational change for the Sales workforce

  • Possess an acute sense of urgency and is able to resolve project issues and roadblocks throughout the product development lifecycle

  • Enjoy working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, by creating products that will make a profound impact on the user

Qualifications

Your Experience  

  • Familiarity with SAC as a planning tool, creating planning data models and working with categories actual, budget, planning, forecast, rolling forecast
  • 10+ years of experience required in SAP Analytical/Reporting work streams 
  • Familiarity with analytic applications and analytic designer, screen layout, widgets, custom scripts JavaScript
  • Extensive experience in data modeling and preparing datasets, merging, appending, custom hierarchies, custom calculations, groupings, formatting values, data wrangling, dimensions and measures
  • Strong finance and cross functional business process, focussed on FP&A
  • Ability to work closely with Process Owners and other key stakeholders
  • Ability to interact and influence variety of users including process stakeholders, drive adoption of SAC tool across the organization
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to chair change management sessions
  • Minimum 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science OR Management Information Systems

About Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that is transforming the way people and organizations operate. At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission: 

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. 

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. 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.