Job Description

The Business Entity The Cisco Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team has an exciting opportunity for Financial Analyst to support Cisco\'s 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: \xe2\x80\xa2 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 \xe2\x80\xa2 Prepare and disseminate timely and accurate financial information to allow the business to plan, forecast, and make decisions using controlled, consistent data \xe2\x80\xa2 Takes full ownership of and accountability for on-going reports providing validation and supporting documentation to business partners as required \xe2\x80\xa2 Perform scenario analysis & planning to be used for decision making and approvals. \xe2\x80\xa2 Organizational Expense & HC reporting, Bookings, Revenue and Margin Analysis, support opex management with PR approvals and accruals for regions / BE. \xe2\x80\xa2 Identifies potential opportunities for process improvement to CoE leadership \xe2\x80\xa2 Acting as the primary contact to designated business finance partner(s) providing timely advice & appropriate reporting & analysis thereon \xe2\x80\xa2 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 \xe2\x80\xa2 Assisting in providing value-added management decision support, driving key business goals, identify major trends and corresponding business issues Minimum Qualifications Minimum Requirements: \xe2\x80\xa2 BS degree in accounting/finance with CA/MBA with 4+ years of relevant experience \xe2\x80\xa2 High degree of partnering skills: Personal integrity; drive for results; forward thinker; proactive and cross functional thinker \xe2\x80\xa2 General financial understanding a plus (periodic performance reporting, yearly and quarterly opex budgeting and planning, and month-end accounting) \xe2\x80\xa2 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.) \xe2\x80\xa2 Strong and effective communications across multiple levels of the Company and across multiple functional organizations. Must have excellent partnering and influencing skills. \xe2\x80\xa2 Ability to participate/and leverage cross-functional and regional teams. \xe2\x80\xa2 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 it\'s transforming our customers\' businesses worldwide. We are pioneers and have been since the early days of connectivity. Today, we are building 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 revolutionary ideas will impact everything from retail, healthcare, and entertainment, to public and private sectors, and far beyond. Collaborate with like-minded innovators in a fun and flexible culture that has earned Cisco global recognition as a Great 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 Cisco

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