Finance Analyst

Job Description

Why Youll Love CiscoEverything is converging on the Internet, making networked connections more relevant than ever before in our lives. Our employees dynamic ideas impact everything imaginable - from entertainment, retail, healthcare, and education, to public and private sectors, smart cities, smart cars, and everyday devices in our homes. Here, that means youll take creative ideas from the drawing board to powerful solutions that have real world impact. Youll work with Cisco leaders, partner with experienced mentors, and develop incredible relationships with colleagues who share your interest in connecting the unconnected. Youll be part a team that cares about its customers, enjoys having fun, and youll take part in changing the lives of those in our local communities. Come prepared to be inspiredThe Business Entity The Cisco Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team has an exciting opportunity for Financial Analyst to support Ciscos Global FP&A Center of Excellence (CoE) at Bangalore. The Team In this role, the analyst would work as part of finance team supporting periodic performance reporting, decision analysis, business insights and forecasting/ planning for regional Sales and Services organization/Business Entities.Role & Responsibilities Responsibilities include:
• General reporting and business metric tracking; including generating reports, analyses and models as requested by the business to support the overall process regionally or globally
• Prepare and disseminate timely and accurate financial information to allow the business to plan, forecast, and make decisions using controlled, consistent data
• Takes full ownership of and accountability for on-going reports providing validation and supporting documentation to business partners as required
• Perform scenario analysis & planning to be used for decision making and approvals.
• Organizational Expense & HC reporting, Bookings, Revenue and Margin Analysis, support opex management with PR approvals and accruals for regions / BE.
• Identifies potential opportunities for process improvement to CoE leadership
• Acting as the primary contact to designated business finance partner(s) providing timely advice & appropriate reporting & analysis thereon
• Participating as an extended member of the business finance partner team ensuring good of the underlying business in order to provide the appropriate analytical insights
• Assisting in providing valuable management decision support, driving key business goals, identify major trends and corresponding business issues
Minimum Qualifications Minimum Requirements:
• BS degree in accounting/finance with CA/MBA with 4+ years of relevant experience
• High degree of partnering skills: Personal integrity; drive for results; forward thinker; proactive and cross functional problem solver
• General financial understanding a plus (periodic performance reporting, yearly and quarterly opex budgeting and planning, and month-end accounting)
• Must have excellent analytical and systems skills, including sound finance and accounting knowledge, advanced excel skills and a working knowledge of various systems tools (Business Objects, Essbase, etc.)
• Strong and effective communications across multiple levels of the Company and across multiple functional organizations. Must have excellent partnering and influencing skills.
• Ability to participate/and use cross-functional and regional teams.
• Prior experience in large multi-national company preferred Desired Skills Some preferable but not mandatory skills are ability to work with Macros, Database knowledge so as to deal with large financial data, Ability to create automation/models in excel, Ability to connect to external databases in excel and high end data analytics skills that can be applied for FP&A analytical models.
About Cisco The Internet of Everything is a phenomenon driving new opportunities for Cisco and its redefining our customers businesses worldwide. We are pioneers and have been since the early days of connectivity. Today, we are hiring teams that are expanding our technology solutions in the mobile, cloud, security, IT, and big data spaces, including software and consulting services. As Cisco delivers the network that powers the Internet, we are connecting the unconnected. Imagine creating unprecedented disruption. Your progressive ideas will impact everything from retail, healthcare, and entertainment, to public and private sectors, and far beyond. Collaborate with like-minded innovators in a lively and flexible culture that has earned Cisco global recognition as a phenomenal Place To Work. With roughly 10 billion connected things in the world now and over 50 billion estimated in the future, your career has exponential possibilities at CiscoWhy Cisco#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference. Here s how we do it.We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we re old (30 years strong!) and only about hardware, but we re also a software company. And a security company. A blockchain company. An AI/Machine Learning company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do you can t put us in a box! But Digital Transformation is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.) Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, we give our egos a break and we give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, we take bold steps, and we take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a commitment to equality for all, there is no moving forward. So, you have colorful hair Don t care. Tattoos Show off your ink. Like polka dots That s cool. Social media trends enthusiast Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing Be you, with us!,

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