Finance Manager
About The Position
Global Specialist Sales Finance partners with Cisco’s Sales Specialist organization furthering the mission of our hyperspecialist sellers who focus on a particular product set or go to market motion that requires specific expertise. Cisco’s Industrial IOT portfolio includes ruggedized routing, switching, wireless, and security solutions for our Operational Technology customers and partners in the world’s most critical industries. This team had a record FY26 for top line growth and broke through the $1B mark as a business! You will be a Finance Manager supporting the Global Industrial IOT Sales team. This is a front-line sales controller role and will partner directly with the VP, Global IIOT Sales and provide finance support to multiple senior members of the Global IIOT Sales Specialist team, focused on day to day operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or business with 6-8 years of relevant Finance experience
- Strong analytical skills, organization skills, and attention to detail
- Ability to actively manage competing deliverables to meet business commitments and partners’ expectations
- Strong collaboration, presentation, and communications skills and ability to work with multiple cross-functional and remote teams simultaneously
- Proven Excel, Essbase, Business Objects, and PowerPoint skills
- Self-starter who is structured and organized in approach with ability to plan work and prioritize effectively in an independent manner
- Excellent communicator and open to sharing ideas and suggestions for process optimization and improvements
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with Cisco’s new year readiness, planning, and goaling processes is desired.
- Cisco finance experience with New Year Readiness, goaling and planning is desired.
Responsibilities
- Driving monthly Global IIOT bookings forecasting, weekly reporting and analysis, including partnering with regional sales leaders in providing forward looking business insights around attainment, forecast accuracy, risks/opportunities and recommendations.
- Lead all interlocks, fiscal year planning, and goaling to provide strategic business support across Global IIOT.
- Analyze monthly overachievers and manage commissions cases specifically related to architecture goaling.
- Lead quarterly opex budgeting for Global IIOT Sales including monthly close (accruals) of expense, opex & headcount flashes, quarterly commits
- Engage with cross functional teams including: Sales Management, Strategy and Planning, Finance leadership, Commercial Finance, Business Units, and various FP&A teams.
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
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
