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: Why You\'ll Love Cisco Everything is converging on the Internet, making networked connections more relevant than ever before in our lives. Our employees\' progressive ideas impact everything imaginable - from entertainment, retail, healthcare, and education, to public and private sectors, thoughtful cities, sensible cars, and everyday devices in our homes. Here, that means you\'ll take creative ideas from the drawing board to powerful solutions that have real world impact. You\'ll work with Cisco leaders, partner with experienced mentors, and develop incredible relationships with colleagues who share your interest in connecting the unconnected. You\'ll be part a team that cares about its customers, enjoys having fun, and you\'ll take part in changing the lives of those in our local communities. Cisco tops the 26th annual Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list in 2023 for the third consecutive year. Come prepared to be inspired. The Cisco Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team has an exciting opportunity for Financial Analyst to support Cisco\'s FP&A Center of Excellence (CoE) at Bangalore. In this role, the analyst would work as part of finance team supporting periodic performance reporting, business insights and forecasting/ planning for BE/Region Sales and Services. Primary contact to designated business finance partner(s) providing timely advice & appropriate reporting & analysis thereon to support in critical planning/goaling/forecasting/decision making. Proactively identifies areas of improvement and business drivers to support Role & Responsibilities Responsibilities include: 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 data. Takes full ownership of and accountability for ongoing reports providing validation and support. Documentation to business partners as required. Perform scenario analysis & planning to be used for decision making and approvals. Organizational Expense & HC reporting, Bookings, Revenue and Margin Analysis, support Opex Managing PR approvals and accruals for regions / BE. Identifies potential opportunities for operational improvement to CoE leadership. Assisting in providing beneficial management decision support, driving key business goals, identify major trends and corresponding business issues Minimum Qualifications Minimum Requirements: BS degree in accounting/finance with CA/MBA with 6+ years of relevant experience High degree of partnering skills: Personal integrity drive for results forward thinker proactive and cross functional problem solver General 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, sophisticated 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. Ability to participate/and use cross-functional and regional teams. Prior experience in large multi-national company preferred Why Cisco #WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it Well, for starters with people like you! Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. Were the Internets optimists. Our technology makes sure the data traveling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet its not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. Were helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other schools, colleges, and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. Were helping businesses of all shapes and sizes to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world whether through 5G, or otherwise. We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each others backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that). We know that powering an inclusive future starts with us. Because without diversity and a dedication to equality, there is no moving forward. Our 30 Inclusive Communities, that bring people together around commonalities or passions, are leading the way. Together were committed to learning, listening, caring for our communities, whilst supporting the most vulnerable with a collective effort to make this world a better place either with technology, or through our actions. So, you have colorful hair Dont care. Tattoos Show off your ink. Like polka dots Thats cool. Pop culture geek Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing Be you, with us! #WeAreCisco

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