Finance Analyst

Cisco•Research Triangle Park, NC

5d•$78,600 - $103,200•Hybrid

About The Position

The GSSO Security Financial Analyst is a highly visible and critical role within the Global Sales Specialists Organization, supporting $3.5B of bookings annually. You will play a key role in the weekly, monthly, and quarterly forecasting and reporting processes, providing detailed financial insights and analysis to drive business decisions and ensure accurate financial reporting. This role supports a distributed team, requiring collaboration across multiple time zones and the flexibility to work around a global clock to meet deliverables and business needs. 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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
Minimum 2 years of experience in a financial analyst, FP&A, Sales Finance, or related role, showing strength in core financial analysis responsibilities including identifying business trends, assessing risks and opportunities, and providing actionable analysis to support business decisions.
Strong analytical and problem solving skills, with the ability to analyze financial data, identify key drivers and trends, and translate findings into actionable insights.
Highly detail oriented and organized, with the capability to prioritise multiple deadlines, results, and priorities while maintaining a high degree of accuracy and quality.
Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to optimally communicate financial results, trends, risks, and opportunities to cross-functional and global partners.
Ability to take ownership of recurring financial processes, including collecting, validating, reconciling, and consolidating financial inputs.
Proven ability to identify and drive operational improvements and efficiencies within financial reporting and forecasting processes.
Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and proven ability to work with financial data and reporting tools.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting a global organization and working with stakeholders across multiple geographies and time zones.
Experience working with Finance and business systems, including Excel, FINBO, MBR, Power BI, Salesforce, or similar financial/reporting platforms.
Experience with data visualization and reporting tools, such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar platforms.
Experience using AI tools to improve financial analysis, reporting, forecasting, automation, or business processes.
MBA, CPA, CFA, or other relevant advanced degree/certification.

Responsibilities

Lead the weekly and monthly GSSO Security forecast decks while delivering timely, accurate, and informational financial reporting, business metrics, and performance supporting-analysis to support WW Security.
Consolidate the GSSO GEO’s forecast to report Security Forecast by GEO & Product.
GSSO Security main point of contact for forecast consolidation, distribution & reporting metrics, while empowering a distributed team.
Collaborate cross functionally with various organizations to understand their Security forecasts and the underlying drivers behind forecast updates
Maintain and build on the current financial models required to support forecasting for various “Bookings Types” (i.e Hardware / Software / Recurring / ACV)
Drive process simplification and operational excellence by finding opportunities for automation, standardization, and continuous improvement.
Conduct pipeline analysis by monitoring top deals to identify challenges and opportunities within the business
Action ad hoc analysis, projects and etc.
Proactively analyze data to call out risk and opportunity in the Security business
Leverage AI to automate workflows

Benefits

medical, dental and vision insurance
a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
paid parental leave
short and long-term disability coverage
basic life insurance
paid time away
10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees (non-exempt)
flexible vacation time off program (exempt)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies (for non-sales roles)
performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary (for sales roles)