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Meet the Team
Join Cisco Security’s FP&A team in a high-visibility role supporting our Security Opex groups, closely aligned to engineering functions. You will partner closely with Engineering leaders, SBG FP&A Finance and SBG controller teams, along with Central BE FP&A teams. You will also work closely on Opex consolidation, creating automated procedures and models help drive financial excellence and operational efficiency.
Your Impact
As a Security FP&A Operations Expense lead, you will serve as a strategic business partner, influencing investment prioritization, headcount growth, and business planning for Cisco Security! In this role, you’ll collaborate across multiple teams to ensure the accuracy and clarity of financial forecasts and reporting, while proactively driving improvements in execution and operational efficiency. This is an exciting opportunity to present to senior leadership and help shape the future of Cisco Security.
Serve as a strategic business partner for Cisco Security’s Engineering, and Non-Engineering organizations, significantly influencing investment prioritizations, headcount growth, and business plans.
Consolidate Opex for Engineering and collaborate with the team to update forecasts in accordance with corporate timelines.
Build and refine efficient templates, provide variance explanations, and clarify differences from forecasts.
Lead key aspects of the Security budget, participating in forecasting and planning, and working with partners to drive business goals and initiatives.
Oversee Opex for supported groups and handle headcount reporting and forecasting processes, enhancing forecast accuracy and understanding drivers.
Identify, develop, and implement improvements to existing reporting and business processes.
Develop and refine monthly and quarterly operations/finance reviews, ensuring the reporting of key financial information for decision-making.
Lead monthly forecast review calls with Business Partners, Finance, and Operations, with opportunities to present to senior leadership.
Conduct ad-hoc analyses related to operational efficiency for operations teams, Finance leaders, and SBG finance FP&A.
Minimum QualificationsBachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business.2–4 years of relevant work experience in financial planning, analysis, budget management or a related field.Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.Self-starter with initiative to drive operational improvements and optimize processes.
Preferred QualificationsKnowledge of Hyperion Essbase and Business Objects.Ability to handle several projects simultaneously and prioritize to meet deadlines.Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.Shown problem-solving skills and ability to address issues authoritatively and efficiently.Ability to tailor communications appropriately to the audience and situation.Shown creativity and judgment in financial or operational analysis.
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.