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 progressive 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 inspiredWhat Youll DoResponsibilities include:

• Be the go to person for partnering on CCG wide initiatives around CCM (Continuous Control Monitoring) & audit of various internal accounting process
• Coordinate all the CoE - CCG/GRC engagements driving consistency and standard methodologies sharing across GEOs, regions and theatres.
• Responsible for CCM Process audit requirements to ensure that the audit is conducted and results are published as per the audit cycle, and in the output templates and format, as required, without any deviation.
• Partner with CCG team to train/educate the business team to drive lower failure rates and meet the goals set before the Audit Committee of the Board of the company.
• Drive dedicated understanding of the fundamental changes happening in the audit planning, country risk metrics, internal accounting policies and other processes and then lead the team stay ahead of the upcoming changes.
• General reporting and business metric tracking; including generating reports, analyses and models as requested by the business partners to support the overall process regionally or globally
• Prepare and disseminate timely and accurate audit results and information to allow the management make decisions using controlled and consistent data
• Takes full ownership of and accountability for on-going audits, providing validation and supporting documentation to business partners as required
• Identifies potential opportunities for operational 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 beneficial management decision support, driving key business goals, identify major trends and corresponding business issues

Who Youll Work WithThe Cisco Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) CoE team has an exciting opportunity for Financial Analyst to support Ciscos Global FP&A Center of Excellence (CoE) at Bangalore.The candidate would work as part of finance team supporting the compliance process & audit of the accounting processes, periodic performance reporting, decision analysis, business insights and forecasting/ planning for management.Who You AreMinimum Qualifications Minimum Requirements:

• Preferably CA with 6+ years of relevant experience especially in accounting and audit process. P2P process knowledge would be an added advantage.
• High degree of partnering skills: Personal integrity; work towards 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 demonstrate cross-functional and regional teams.
• Prior experience in large multi-national company preferred
• Desired Skills Some preferable but not required 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.

Why 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!,

Keyskills :
process auditdata analyticsaudit planningfinancial dataaudit committeemetric trackingbusiness financedecision supportdecision analysisbusiness insightsfinancial analysis