Cisco FP & Analyst Growth Operations 

United States, Georgia, Atlanta 

241678753

You will join Operations Finance as a FP&A Analyst reporting to the Director of Growth Operations Finance leading all aspects of functional budgets and investment deployment. Your responsibilities will include, but not be limited to the following:

• Conduct forecast process among organization's finance managers (produce reports, lead forecast meetings, ask questions, etc.).
• Represent organization in weekly forecast calls to explain variance & risks to Operations FP&A.
• Maintain HQ budget and report spend to Business Operations partners.
• Be responsible for headcount forecast for organization.
• Build ad hoc reports to showcase different applicable trends, metrics and analyses.
• Prepare and present financials to organization business partners and be able to explain actuals, trends, variances and risks.

• Help pilot different Cisco teams to learn the newest Finance tool.
• Conduct trainings and lead office hours on HHM.
• Send surveys to supervise progression.
• Create presentations to update leaders on developments.

• Coordinate case development for funding requests from Growth Operations multiple areas
• Work closely with functional leaders and business operations to rationalize budgets
• Maintain projection models to support the annual budgeting cycle

• Perform cost estimation to assess affordability for resource acquisition.
• Facilitate transactional execution including customer agreement, compliance check and system processing.
• Advise the business on transactional accounting treatments and impact on the forecast.
• Be an ambassador of Cisco’s financial policies – educate the business, implement the policies, coordinate audits and remedial actions.

• Track QTD actuals and to-go activities to assess risks/opportunities in the forecast.
• Coordinate timely and accurate PO accruals and closures.
• Partner with Accounting on capitalized costs, amortization and payroll entries.
• Reconcile general ledgers against forecasted spend; identify and resolve gaps.

• Maintain alignment of departmental and P&L hierarchies.
• Identify, recommend and facility process improvement.
• Provide support in special projects.

• Growth Operations Executives, Finance Managers, Business Operations Managers, Central FP&A, Accounting.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Economics or related fiel
• 5+ years of relevant experience with a background in finance and accounting.
• Strong command of complex data modeling using Microsoft Excel, such as the utilization of pivot tables, vlookup, hlookup, xlookup, sumif, sumifs, countif, if/and/or.
• Proven ability to analyze and interpret large datasets and convert them into concise, actionable insights.
• Advanced proficiency in English, both written and verbal. Ability to communicate complex data insights succinctly; provide examples of reports or presentations connecting data insights to business strategies.

• Familiarity with finance tools (Business Objects, Hyperion/Essbase, FinABC).
• Ability to lead live Webex meetings and perform on-the-spot data analysis.

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).