You will lead Global Partner and Routes to Market Sales Finance projects that drive the design and development of data and reporting capabilities for several key initiatives. Your focus will be on utilizing best practices and systems to deliver custom reporting solutions for discount governance, partner rebate programs, partner/program/technology specific reports. To be successful, you will effectively source large data sets from disparate data systems and transform it into easy to use reporting products passionate about partner performance. You will need to maintain a detailed understanding of the Partner focused transactional platforms and processes at Cisco. You will collaborate with various Subject Matter Experts globally to develop and execute business, functional, and data specific requirements.
Your Impact
You will join a team of cross functional data professionals from Finance, Operations, Sales Strategy and Planning, and IT Teams. You will collaboratively craft, build and maintain reporting analytics that these teams use to run the business and support controls. You will help run a large amount of business requirements across Partners, Distribution, and other Routes to Market globally.
You are a self-starter and an influential team player who can collaborate with a variety of team members to drive impactful change. Using your judgement and influence, you can quickly assess the impact of proposed changes and unite business partners to do what is right for Cisco. You have a passion for driving ideas and initiatives to completion. You have an unquenchable curiosity and are always asking "what if" to challenge the status quo. You are never satisfied with what you already know because of your drive to continue to learn.
Minimum qualifications
Bachelors of Science/Arts -Finance/Accounting/Computer Science/Data Analytics and minimum of 5 years of experience – deep technical skills regarding Data Base structure/design/development
Data Base Tool experience (at least intermediate) MS Access, SQL Server DB, Analysis Manager
Experience using SAP HANA, Oracle DB, Power BI, other OLAP and Cube Technologies
Reporting Tool experience (Advanced) – Business Objects Xi, Tableau, Other
Advanced MS Excel skills
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Reporting Tools - Business Objects, OLAP Cubes, Power BI, Tableau, and advanced functions in Excel
Database Tool expertise - SQL Server Databases (DB Development: Tables, Views, Procedures, ETL, ODBC), and SQL Server Analysis Manager (OLAP Cube Development and Administration)
Outstanding communication skills, including ability to present effectively to senior management in both verbal and written format
Background in business intelligence and pricing are also very helpful in succeeding in this role
Sales support experience is helpful
Knowledge of and experience with Cisco’s go to market models is very helpful - Distribution and Partner Channels specifically
Experience with planning, crafting, and implementing data heavy business processes within a very large cross functional matrixed organization