What You'll Do

Responsibilities include:

• Be the go to person for partnering on CCG wide initiatives around CCM (Continuos 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 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 ongoing 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

Who You'll Work With

The Cisco Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) CoE 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 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.

Who You Are

Minimum Qualifications Minimum Requirements:

• Preferably CA with 3+ years of relevant experience in audit

• 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?

#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.

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