Meet the Team

The Cisco Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) CoE team has an exciting opportunity for Financial Analyst to support Cisco's Global FP&A Center of Excellence (CoE) at Bangalore.

Your Impact

The Finance Analyst would work as part of (FP&A) CoE team supporting periodic performance reporting, decision analysis, business insights and forecasting/ planning for APJC Regional Sales and Services organization/Business Entities.

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 dataOrganizational Expense & HC reporting, Bookings, Revenue and Margin Analysis, support opex management with PR approvals and accruals for regions / BE.Acting as the primary contact to designated business finance partner(s) providing timely advice & appropriate reporting & analysis thereonParticipating as an extended member of the business finance partner team ensuring good of the underlying business in order to provide the appropriate analytical insightsMinimum Qualifications:BS degree in accounting/finance with CA/MBA with 2+ years of proven experienceHigh degree of partnering skills: Personal integrity; drive for results; forward thinker; proactive and cross functional thinkerGeneral 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.Preferred Qualifications:Ability to work with Macros, Database knowledge so as to deal with large financial data,Build 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.Prior experience in large multi-national company preferred#WeAreCisco

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