Manager, Revenue
Palo Alto Networks · Santa Clara County, CA · 1 wk ago
HybridBusiness Development$118k–$192k/yrFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- Empowering Others: Delegate ownership of tasks and analyses, enabling team members to make autonomous decisions that improve the accuracy of their deliverables.
- Aligning on Purpose: Translate the Revenue Accounting team’s long-term strategy into specific goals, ensuring all close activities and system improvements directly support key business outcomes.
- Driving Results & Accountability: Set ambitious team goals and hold the team accountable for achieving high performance, especially during the fast-paced revenue close environment.
- Strategic Planning: Sequence the implementation of revenue system improvements and automate processes to ensure timely completion of reporting cycles.
- Learning & AI Innovation: Foster a culture of intellectual curiosity by encouraging the team to experiment with new AI and analytical methods (such as BigQuery or Tableau) to improve revenue processes.
- Stakeholder Partnership: Act as a strategic partner to IT, providing financial insights that drive decisions and align revenue and IT strategies with company-wide goals.
Required Qualifications
- Core Management Experience
- Leadership Breadth: Experience managing team members, defining professional goals, and providing consistent mentorship and coaching.
- Talent Pipeline Development: Proven ability to build a pipeline of high-performing talent and coach team members to lead through technical financial challenges.
- Business Partnership: Experience in a formal business partnership role, collaborating with C-level or VP-level executives to negotiate resource trade-offs and align financial plans.
- Systems Leadership: Advanced experience with enterprise financial systems (SAP, RAR, SFDC) and the ability to define enterprise-wide standards for financial reporting and planning.
- Strategic Problem Solving: Ability to anticipate complex financial risks across a business portfolio and design enterprise-level solutions to drive long-term structural efficiency.
- Advanced Data Governance: Experience designing and implementing robust controls and review processes for major financial submissions to ensure data integrity across complex systems.