Finance Analyst- FP&A CoE @ Cisco

The Cisco Finance Center of Excellence (CoE) is a specialized team within Cisco's finance organization focused on driving excellence, innovation, and efficiency in financial processes and decision-making. This team plays a critical role in supporting Cisco's strategic objectives by providing advanced financial insights, optimizing operations, and enabling data-driven decisions.

In this role, the candidate would work as part of finance team supporting the compliance process & audit of the accounting processes, periodic performance reporting, decision analysis, business insights and forecasting/ planning for management.

Be the go-to person for partnering on CCG wide initiatives around CCM (Continuous Control Monitoring) & audit of various internal accounting process

• Coordinate all the CoE - CCG/GRC engagements driving consistency and best practices sharing across GEOs, regions and theatres.
• Drive proactive understanding of the fundamental changes happening in the audit planning, country risk metrics, internal accounting policies and other processes and then lead the the team stay ahead of the upcoming changes.
• General reporting and business metric tracking; including generating reports, analyses and models as requested by the business partners to support the overall process regionally or globally
• Prepare and disseminate timely and accurate audit results and information to allow the management make decisions using controlled and consistent data
• Takes full ownership of and accountability for on-going audits providing validation and supporting documentation to business partners as required
• 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

• CA with 3+ years of proven experience in audit/ CMA/ICWA
• 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

• 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.