Finance Manager
About The Position
This position is in the Product Finance team and will be working with Senior Product Leaders, other FP&A, Deal Desk, Operations, R&D, Pricing business partners and Accounting teams amongst others. You should be a driver of results, proactive in approach and deadline conscious. Agility and passion while keeping a positive spin on relationships, willing to learn and develop skills are key to success. Strong financial modeling and analytical skills with attention to details, accuracy and building credibility will be needed in this role. Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and stay flexible through growth and change is going to go a long way. Prior experience with P&Ls and supporting large engineering teams is a must.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in Accounting/Finance
- 6+ years of experience in FP&A incl few years with managing P&Ls, R&D budgets, revenue/cost modeling skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with strong Financial modeling experience
- Able to dive in details as well as go high level to support senior execs
- Strong systems skills (Hyperion, Anaplan etc)
Nice To Haves
- Pricing strategy experience
- Masters Degree in Business
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain Financials models as needed to support Product P&Ls (May include Bookings, Revenue, CSP spend, margin analysis, new product initiatives, partnership/deal assessments, Opex, Headcount) for business entities and management metrics.
- Inform what the data is relaying while understanding the gaps and addressing those with long and short term recommendations.
- Diving in the business to fully understand growth drivers and accelerators.
- Work on New Product Initiatives P&L, launches, post launch assessment as needed.
- Prepare monthly and quarterly management reporting for forecast submissions, variance analysis and reporting dashboards.
- Analyze results, distill/synthesize business performance indicators/metrics, assess business risk and operating performance, and timely communicate risks and opportunities.
- Understanding of spend types and presenting those are a pivotal part of this role.
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
- Cisco restricted stock units
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
- 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
- paid year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid days off for personal wellness
- 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year (non-exempt)
- flexible vacation time off program (exempt)
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
- up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
- annual bonuses (for non-sales roles)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
