Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A

Zscaler accelerates digital transformation to ensure our customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. As an AI-forward enterprise, we are constantly pushing the envelope, leveraging the world’s largest security data lake to power our cloud-native Zero Trust Exchange platform. This innovation protects our customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.

Here, impact in your role matters more than title and trust is built on results. We say, impact over activity. We seek innovators who actively use AI to amplify their impact and who thrive in an environment where we leverage intelligent systems to stay ahead of evolving threats. We believe in transparency and value constructive, honest debate—we’re focused on getting to the best ideas, faster. We build high-performing teams that can make an impact quickly and with high quality. To do this, we are building a culture of execution centered on customer obsession, collaboration, ownership, and accountability.

We value high-impact, high-accountability with a sense of urgency where you’re enabled to do your best work and embrace your potential. If you’re driven by purpose, thrive on solving complex challenges, and want to be part of the team that’s helping to secure the AI age, we invite you to bring your talents to Zscaler and help shape the future of cybersecurity.

We are looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to join our team. This is a Hybrid role for Mohali location, reporting to the Senior Manager in the Finance (FP&A) department. In this critical replacement position, you will join the FP&A India team to drive financial planning and analysis for the Public Sector Geo, working closely to support our US headquarters counterpart and optimize global market outcomes.

What you’ll do (Role Expectations)

• Analyze monthly and quarterly GTM performance, focusing on New Business ACV, Upsell/Cross-sell, Pipeline health, and coverage ratio, while providing variance analysis of actual bookings versus forecast to identify key drivers of performance

• Manage headcount and expense reporting and forecasting, including marketing spend, travel and expense, and program spend, while driving cost-saving initiatives and process automation through variance commentaries

• Support the annual planning process and rolling quarterly forecasts by building and maintaining financial models to predict productivity and consolidating regional inputs into a cohesive global story for US leadership

• Partner effectively with US-based GTM Operations and Global FP&A teams, maintaining the flexibility to overlap with US Pacific Standard Time (PST) zones for key forecast calls and business reviews

• Utilize AI/ML tools to automate routine reporting, enhance predictive forecasting, leverage Generative AI to synthesize large datasets for executive summaries, and collaborate with Analytics to integrate advanced statistical solutions

Who You Are (Success Profile)

• You are data-driven, using data and analytics to find the truth, measure what matters, and guide informed decisions with evidence over assumptions.

• You are driven by innovation, bringing a deep curiosity for how things work and an enthusiasm for leveraging technology and AI to accelerate financial transformation.

• You act like an owner, demonstrating a strong bias for action and navigating seamlessly between high-level global strategy and hands-on financial execution.

• You champion simplicity, proving skilled at distilling complex financial data and multi-regional inputs into clear, simple, and actionable