Cisco Finance Analyst FP & CoE 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

699178332

General reporting and business metric tracking; including generating reports, analyses and models as requested by the business to support the overall process regionally or globally

• Prepare and disseminate timely and accurate financial information to allow the business to plan, forecast, and make decisions using controlled, consistent data
• Organizational Expense & HC reporting, Bookings, Revenue and Margin Analysis, support opex management with PR approvals and accruals for regions / BE.
• 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

• BS degree in accounting/finance with CA/MBA with 1+ years of proven experience
• 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 work with Macros, Database knowledge so as to deal with large financial data,
• Build 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.
• Prior experience in large multi-national company preferred