Finance Analyst

This is a hybrid role with two days per week at Cisco’s or RTP office. Alternate locations will be considered on an exception basis.

Meet the Team

Our team is seeking a Senior Finance Analyst to provide OPEX support to the Routing Software Engineering Organization. This role provides the unique opportunity to help support the forecasting and reporting for the business as well as influence strategic investment decisions. Solid organizational, financial modeling, communication, influencing, and business partnering skills will help you find success in this role.

Responsibilities

• Budgeting and Opex Management – Support Engineering leadership prioritization and decision making, portfolio planning, annual budgeting and quarterly commit processes, month-end and quarterly close activities, forecasting/reporting/variance analysis, driving compliance.
• Provide Finance support to a VP in Engineering and manage a budget of ~$48M per quarter.
• Drive forecast accuracy throughout the quarter to ensure the team spends to the commit target.
• Model headcount costs and discretionary spend to provide opportunities to pull back or accelerate spend based on areas of prioritization by the team.
• Proactively provide updates on actual spend and bottoms-up forecasts throughout the quarter through monthly presentations to the VP in Engineering.
• Partner closely within our Finance team and Engineering Operations lead to collaborate and establish best practices across the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or Business-related field with 3+ years of relevant experience.
• Intermediate Excel skills is a requirement.
• Proficiency with finance tools such as Essbase, Business Objects, FinABC, Budget Tool, SI (Systems Integrator).
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous OpEx or COGS Experience is preferred.
• Currently or previously held a role in the Business Entity (BE) organization.
• Has shown an ability to drive process improvements and automation.
• Experience in PowerBI, Tableau or other finance tools for building dashboards.

About 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. 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.

Pay

The starting salary range for this position is $99,600.00 to $130,600.00 for new hires in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation, equity, or benefits. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training.

The full salary range for certain locations is listed below:

• New York City Metro Area: $120,000.00 - $181,000.00
• Non-Metro New York State & Washington State: $106,700.00 - $160,900.00

For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.
• Paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
• Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
• Paid time away:
  • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees.
  • 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco.
  • Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees.
  • Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations).
  • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next.
  • Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members.
  • Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.
• For non-sales roles, employees are eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.
• Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan.