Meet the Team

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.

Your Impact

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.

General reporting and business metric tracking; including generating reports, analyses and models as requested by the business to support the overall process regionally or globallyPrepare and disseminate timely and accurate financial information to allow the business to plan, forecast, and make decisions using controlled, consistent dataTakes full ownership of and accountability for on-going reports providing validation and supporting documentation to business partners as requiredPerform 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 leadershipActing 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 insightsAssisting in providing value-added management decision support, driving key business goals, identify major trends and corresponding business issuesMinimum QualificationsBS degree in accounting/finance with CA/MBA with 4+ 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 QualificationsAbility 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

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Simply put – we power the future.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with

empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.