Financial Controller - LATAM

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks has an exciting opportunity for a LatAm Controller to join our Finance Team. We are looking for a financial professional interested in a senior level opportunity as a regional Controller to ensure accuracy and completeness of accounting and financial reporting for the Palo Alto Networks legal entities in the Latin American region and play a key role in re-engineering processes to drive improvement. This position has extensive interaction with cross-functional business partners at all levels, including senior management in multiple geographical locations.

A successful candidate will be proactive, confident and solution-oriented, have a broad set of work experiences within a Finance organization, and will provide a strong voice to represent Finance throughout the Controllership to arrive at solutions all cross-functional groups will find reasonable.

Your Impact

• Identify actionable insights and drive cross-functional process improvements including, but not limited to, internal and external financial reporting, regulatory compliance, internal controls and system integration in the region
• Lead the formulation of the Country Controlling strategy for the region to align with business needs and corporate strategy
• Take ownership of facilitation and creation of accurate project plans with clearly defined milestones, deliverables and tasks
• Perform monthly detailed reviews of the regional financial statements to ensure alignment with corporate reporting and local accounting GAAP reporting requirements
• Perform month-end close for the regional entities to ensure accurate US GAAP and company policy compliant financial statements, including reviewing monthly transactions, account reconciliations, and balance sheet and income statements for reasonableness
• Effectively provide guidance and support to GL resources in the Palo Alto Networks Center of Excellence to improve the quality, timeliness and efficiency of the regional month-end close process
• Coordinate with IT, global and regional accounting functions, and regional third-party accounting service providers on regional system implementation projects
• Establish effective partnerships with Palo Alto Networks Global Process Owners, Centers of Excellence and corporate and regional accounting teams to drive the incorporation of global process standards in the region
• Establish and document all policies, process and procedures localization requirements for the region
• Effectively manage third-party service providers in region to improve the quality, timeliness and efficiency of their services
• Coordinate annual statutory audits for various entities in region
• Review and approve non-routine transactions in the regional entities
• Ensure controls and discipline are in place to achieve high employee satisfaction within the region
• Drive cross-functional initiatives in region
• Ensure local compliance with regional regulations, regulatory filings, and accounting rules (GAAP)
• Effectively partner with regional and corporate FP&A and People teams to provide accounting insight and support on regional matters
• Work with cross-functional teams on treasury and tax strategies to support compliance and the corporate goals for the region