Job Description

Why You\'ll Love CiscoEverything 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, inquisitive 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. Come prepared to be inspiredIt\'s an exciting time to be at Cisco! As we work together to lay the foundation for Cisco\'s future, the Global Partner Organization (GPO) is more important than ever in helping Cisco and our partners deliver continued growth and profitability. Our ecosystem of more than 65,000 partners all over the world delivers more than 85% of Cisco\'s revenue, and partners will play an increasingly vital role in helping us enable our customers as they strive to become digital businesses. Business facing finance team supporting Partner finance for APJ region.

• The Business Entity
• 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.

Who we are :

• 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.

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 supporting , 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 management with PR approvals and accruals for regions / BE.
• Identifies potential opportunities for operational improvement to CoE leadership
• Acting as the primary contact to designated business finance partner(s) providing timely advice & appropriate reporting & analysis thereon
• Participating as an extended member of the business finance partner team ensuring good of the underlying business in order to provide the appropriate analytical insights
• 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 4+ 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 desired Skills
• Some preferable but not mandatory skills are ability 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.

About CiscoThe Internet of Everything is a phenomenon driving new opportunities for Cisco and it\'s redefining our customers\' businesses worldwide. We are pioneers and have been since the early days of connectivity. Today, we are building teams that are growing our technology solutions in the mobile, cloud, security, IT, and big data spaces, including software and consulting services. As Cisco delivers the network that powers the Internet, we are connecting the unconnected. Imagine creating unprecedented disruption. Your groundbreaking ideas will impact everything from retail, healthcare, and entertainment to public and private sectors, and far beyond. Collaborate with like-minded innovators in a lively and flexible culture that has earned Cisco global recognition as a Great Place To Work. With roughly 10 billion connected things in the world now and over 50 billion estimated in the future, your career has exponential possibilities at CiscoWhy 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. We\'re the Internet\'s optimists. Our technology makes sure the data traveling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it\'s not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We\'re 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. We\'re 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 other\'s 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 we\'re 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? Don\'t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That\'s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us! #WeAreCiscoMessage to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate\'s hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.U.S. employees have to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings. Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday, plus a day off for their birthday. Employees accrue up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year and have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues without tapping into their PTO. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees are also able to purchase company stock through our Employee Stock Purchase Program.Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

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