Senior Manager, Program Management
- Santa Clara, CA
- $190,000-236,500 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. 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.Who We AreWe take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.Job DescriptionYour CareerPalo Alto Networks has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Manager, Program Management to join our finance, accounting and operations organization.Our finance, accounting and operations groups deal with everything touching the CFO organization, covering the numbers, supporting infrastructure, automation, building solutions and providing accurate, insightful financial information to empower our business lines. Your efforts will directly impact the overall transformation and success of a world-leading cybersecurity business.You'll collaborate on complex business, financial and technology problems that are top-of-mind for our executives. You possess a unique blend of business insight, big-picture thinking, deep understanding of end-to-end financial processes and related systems, strong project management skills, ability to influence and collaborate with a large number of constituents within Palo Alto Networks. In this role, you'll lead initiatives across finance, accounting and operations groups at Palo Alto Networks. The role will partner closely with global process owners and subject matter experts and leaders within the finance, accounting and operations organization.A successful candidate for this role will be proactive, confident and solution-oriented, have a broad set of work experiences within a finance organization, will provide a strong voice to represent finance across the portfolio of initiatives - and will work collaboratively with finance, accounting and operations leaders and outside of Finance (IT, etc.). The Senior Manager, Program Management will be an individual contributor role, reporting directly to the Head of CFO Program Ops.Your Impact
- Drive change across the CFO organization and be willing to wear multiple hats (strategy development, project management and execution) to do what it takes to “move the needle”
- Assess current processes and use first principles to design future state business processes to create operational efficiencies
- Work collaboratively across a cross-functional set of stakeholders to gather the right information, pressure test hypotheses, articulate complex business problems, mobilize a project team, implement solutions and drive accountability
- Structure and size large complex projects into an executable plan
- Develop long-term roadmaps, detailed project plans, project success criteria and key metrics, change management strategies, communication plans and conduct post implementation reviews to ensure the value of a project was successfully unlocked
- Create deliverables (business case memos, key decision documents, presentations, etc.) for executive level consumption
- Capture and drive accountability of RAID items
- Drive adherence to transformation playbook software development lifecycle milestones
- 8-10 overall years of experience within tech, with a combination of consulting (McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Big 4, etc.) and industry experience in PMO function at a top-tier tech company
- Extensive project management skills, including international compliance initiatives and AI projects
- Strong Generative AI and automation skillset including but not limited to LLM prompt engineering, efficient use of Python and / or Google Apps Script for generating project collateral and familiarity with automation platforms like UiPath
- Certification and / or on-the-job experience using system development lifecycle (SDLC) methodology for project delivery, ideally in combination with Cognitive Project Management for AI (CPMAI) methodology approach
- Proficiency with JQL (JIRA Query Language) or equivalent, and Asana platform
- Working understanding of AI capabilities native to enterprise applications such as Ariba, Salesforce and SAP
- Understanding of compliance agenda for a large scale global technology company, with a focus on process standardization and harmonization as well as automation in this domain
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Hands-on and results oriented leader with problem solving and action oriented mindset
- Intellectual curiosity, self-starter and critical thinker
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment
- Ability to deal with ambiguity, deal with changing priorities and drive accountability
- Passion for continuous improvement of systems and processes