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Who We Are
Cisco’s IT Finance team provides world-class services as Finance Leaders to develop the financial planning, processes and capabilities to craft a culture of fiscal discipline while supporting the IT organization’s charter for both Lights on support and Transformation capabilities.
What You’ll Do
You will partner with IT Functional Executives and Chief of Staff to formulate investment strategies and optimize spending tied to priorities of the organization. In this position, you will lead and develop a team of three to four Finance Managers and Financial Analysts who be responsible for the end-to-end budget management process for each of CLO’s functions.
Your role scope will include, but not be limited to the following:
Investment Planning
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Work closely with Functional VP’s to align budgets with work priorities
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Facilitate development of cases to support incremental funding requests
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Recommend budget deployment and drive our save-to-invest initiatives
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Prepare annual and long range budgeting models
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Rationalize and distribute quarterly Budgets to functional VP’s
Capabilities Development
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Identify and build budget management processes critical to spend optimization
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Develop tools and models to implement the planning and forecasting cadence with accuracy
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Instill a culture of cross-functional ownership and transparency
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Maintain integrity of departmental and P&L hierarchies
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Lead special projects such as cost classification, portfolio reporting and comp strategy
Forecasting & Reporting
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Lead monthly forecasting with functional leaders and Business Operations
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Recommend risk/opportunity hedging with an objective point of view
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Maintain headcount modeling with a high degree of precision
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Develop a catalog of analysis to influence and drive spend decisions
Transactional Execution
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Facilitate transactional execution including agreements, compliance assessments and system processing
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Be an ambassador of Cisco’s financial policies – educate the business, enforce the policies, coordinate audits and remedial actions
Accounting Close
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Lead the month-end close process; assess risks/opportunities in the forecast
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Lead all aspects of purchase order management and general ledger reconciliation
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Partner with Accounting on capitalized costs, amortization and payroll entries
Who You’ll Work With
- IT Functional Vice President, Functional Executives, Chief of Staff, Strategy & Planning Managers, Central FP&A, Accounting
Who You Are
You are a highly motivated Finance professional with a solution-mindset, who applies technical and relationship skills to solve problems. You can adapt quickly in a transformative environment and are able to meet short term deliverables while building for the long haul.
Our minimum requirements for this role:
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BS degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics, MBA and/or certification a plus
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10+ years of proven experience with a blend of FP&A and Accounting
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Demonstrated success partnering with business executives
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Succinct communication and presentation skills
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Ability to influence decisions using facts, data and sound business judgment
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Must be savvy with data modeling using Microsoft Excel
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Familiarity with financial tools (Business Object, Hyperion/Essbase, FinABC)
We Are Cisco
WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference. Here’s how we do it.
We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we’re “old” (30 years strong!) and only about hardware, but we’re also a software company. And a security company. A blockchain company. An AI/Machine Learning company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do – you can’t put us in a box!
But “Digital Transformation” is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)
Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, we give our egos a break, and we give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, we take bold steps, and we take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.
Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
