Analyst Finance

  • LOCATION:
    Bangalore, Karnataka, India
  • AREA OF INTEREST
    Finance
  • JOB TYPE
    Professional
  • TECHNOLOGY INTEREST
    *None
  • JOB ID
    1221234
What you’ll do
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 on-going 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 process 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 value-added management decision support, driving key business goals, identify major trends and corresponding business issues 

Who You'll Work With

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. 

The Team 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. 


Who You Are

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 thinker * 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, 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. * Ability to participate/and leverage 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. 

Why Cisco


We connect everything: people, processes, data, and things. We innovate everywhere, taking bold risks to shape the technologies that give us smart cities, connected cars, and handheld hospitals. And we do it in style with unique personalities who aren't afraid to change the way the world works, lives, plays and learns. 

We are thought leaders, tech geeks, pop culture aficionados, and we even have a few purple haired rock stars. We celebrate the creativity and diversity that fuels our innovation. We are dreamers and we are doers. 

We Are Cisco. 
External Job Description (r) What You'll Do

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 on-going 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 process 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 value-added management decision support, driving key business goals, identify major trends and corresponding business issues 

Who You'll Work With

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. 

The Team 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. 


Who You Are

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 thinker * 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, 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. * Ability to participate/and leverage 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. 

Why Cisco


We connect everything: people, processes, data, and things. We innovate everywhere, taking bold risks to shape the technologies that give us smart cities, connected cars, and handheld hospitals. And we do it in style with unique personalities who aren't afraid to change the way the world works, lives, plays and learns. 

We are thought leaders, tech geeks, pop culture aficionados, and we even have a few purple haired rock stars. We celebrate the creativity and diversity that fuels our innovation. We are dreamers and we are doers.

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