Finance Analyst
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Finance analyst managing forecasting, reporting, and process automation within EMEA sales finance.
Who You'll Work With
Our team works closely with the sales leaders and across all functions with the business. Our team represents finance to the business - we are the finance business partners to Cisco's sales, an organization covering the whole of EMEA. The team is taking care of driving and crafting budgeting, forecasting, analyzing and reporting activities across the P&L including Bookings, Revenue, Discount and Operating Expenses.
What You'll Do
You'll help us to manage the financial aspects of our business - to ensure the business is conducted with insight and foresight. The Sales Finance team is partnering with the business to deliver customer success and financial results in a compliant and predictable fashion. This is essential to the success of our teams and to the success of CISCO.
- Forecast process support on a weekly, quarterly and yearly basis.
- Manage and own reporting on sales & financial metrics.
- Active engagement in the yearly planning process.
- Drive innovation and simplification to our processes and reporting packs.
- Provide support to monthly & quarterly business reviews and FP&A deliverables.
- Opex management and budgeting.
- Cross-functional collaboration with different teams.
Who You Are
Our minimum requirements for this role:
- 1-2 years of previous professional experience in Financial Analysis
- Proficiency in Excel
- Experience in data analysis and financial modelling
- Strong interpersonal acuity and comfortable to work with Executives
- Experienced working within a sophisticated, fast-paced environment
- Experience in process automation
Preferred skills and experience:
- Knowledge or experience with AI technologies
- Proficiency in VBA
- Experience with Power BI, Power Automate, and Power Query
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Why Cisco?At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
How we rate this
Finance Analyst at Cisco rates 20 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
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- Tell me about a project where financial analysis was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where forecasting was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where budgeting was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where financial modelling was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where process automation was part of your work. What did you do?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Financial Analysis, Forecasting, Budgeting, Financial Modelling, and Process Automation. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
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