Description
You will play a key role in providing detailed financial insights and analysis to drive business decisions, while also supporting regular forecasting and reporting deliverables.
This role supports a distributed team, requiring collaboration across multiple time zones and the flexibility to work around a global clock to meet deliverables and business needs.
Key responsibilities:
- Produce actionable insights and analysis around the Financial Plan
- Understand and consolidate key items from product roadmaps to help understand upcoming headwinds and tailwinds for Sales
- Assist in modeling out-quarter and next year forecast under different scenarios
- Provide support across the team for regular reporting and forecasting deliverables
- Leverage AI to increase automation and efficiency within workstreams
- Support Ad hoc requests
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field
- Minimum 2 years of experience in a financial analyst, FP&A, Sales Finance, or related role
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze financial data, identify key drivers and trends, and translate findings into actionable insights
- Highly detail oriented and organized, with the capability to prioritize multiple deadlines, results, and priorities while maintaining a high degree of accuracy and quality
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to optimally communicate financial results, trends, risks, and opportunities to cross-functional and global partners
- Proven ability to identify and drive operational improvements and efficiencies within processes
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
- Experience using AI tools to improve and automate business processes
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience supporting a global organisation and working with stakeholders across multiple geographies and time zones
- Experience working with Finance and business systems, including Excel, FINBO, Power BI, Salesforce, or similar financial/reporting platforms
Benefits:
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Paid time away, including 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness
- Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year
- Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter