Your Career
Palo Alto Networks is looking for a Senior Principal Cloud FinOps Analyst to join its Israeli site as Cloud Infrastructure FinOps. We are looking for a person with strong analytical skills, an innate attention to detail, an effective communicator, and is passionate to drive change in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
You must be equally adept at crafting and delivering clear and compelling analyses and recommendations to executives on cost growth projections and optimizations, as much as being hands on and developing the tools and capabilities to do rapid analysis of cost drivers.
Your Impact
Partner with the engineering and technical teams to analyze cloud hosting costs and drive initiatives that would lead to cost optimizations
Taking part in strategic and financial planning processes (e.g., Monthly Business Reviews, Forecasts, Annual Budget, and Long Range Plan)
Developing dashboards that will enable viewing and analyzing costs and unit economics
Develop and monitor critical success metrics, and communicate actionable insights
Quantify the cloud hosting costs per product and assess the impact of new product launches
Developing tools and capabilities to track and analyze detailed cloud hosting costs and gross margin trends by customer to identify and recommend areas of opportunity to improve margins
Work with the Engineering team to improve product architecture in a way that will help identify the drivers of the various costs components
Preparing presentations on projections and plans for review with senior leadership
Your Experience
7+ years of relevant experience showing career progression - Experience overseeing large cloud infrastructure budgets for technology companies
Analytical problem-solver with the ability to gather, analyze and synthesize large amounts of data in order to drive effective and efficient executive decision-making - Experience in SQL a must - Experience in Tableau preferred
Extensive experience building integrated models from scratch with an ability to build enterprise level infrastructure plans, both near-term operational and forward conceptual
Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally in a matrixed organizational structure
Go-getter mindset with desire and demonstrated ability to maintain high-performance under tight timelines with a roll-up sleeves mindset
Exceptional presentation/leadership skills, concise and fluent in communication