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1432125 - Finance Director, BE Finance

Cisco
San Jose, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/17/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/13/2025

Updated posting deadline from January 7, 2025 to January 11, 2025.

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What You’ll Do

We are seeking a Finance Director to provide key support to the Cisco Networking Internet Infrastructure group. This role provides the unique opportunity to lead the forecasting and reporting for the business as well as influence strategic investment decisions. Solid leadership, influencing, communication, business partnering, organizational, and financial modeling skills will help you find success in this role.

Key Responsibilities :

  • Budgeting and Opex Management :

Help shape the future of Cisco Networking product roadmap and development efforts - support the business leadership through portfolio planning, prioritization and decision making.

  • Manage $1B annual budgeting and quarterly commit processes, month-end and quarterly close activities, forecasting / reporting / variance analysis, driving compliance, managing forecasting models.
  • FP&A :
  • Own the monthly forecasting and reporting cadence for the Internet Infrastructure BE, spanning all aspects of the P&L (Bookings, Revenue, Gross Margins) as well as business transformation metrics (Software, AOV / ARR, iACV, ATR / Renewals, RPO).

  • Manage the Long Range Strategic and Annual Planning process and Exec-level business reporting (Financial Close, Financial Business Reviews, QBOs).
  • Drive process improvements and cross-business reporting for key initiatives such as AI and Webscale.
  • Who You'll Work With

    You will work with leaders from Cisco Networking at various levels directly supporting Internet Infrastructure as well as broader Engineering efforts across Data Center and Enterprise. Primary business support for the leader of Cisco Networking Engineering and regular business partner interaction with all Engineering leadership on Opex decisions. Ongoing engagement with peers in other finance organizations. Provide thought leadership and guidance to a team of direct reports across the US and India.

    Who You Are

    You have a strong track record of working with personal integrity and commitment, making a difference in past roles and doing what’s best for the business. You demonstrate collaboration and teamwork with your peers and business partners, are highly motivated and a self-starter, and able to work independently to solve issues and bring fresh solutions, all while having a positive attitude and a healthy dose of fun. Past demonstrated team leadership and end-to-end management of deliverable processes required.

    Minimum Requirements :

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Business-related field.
  • 15 years of relevant Finance experience demonstrating increased scope and responsibilities.
  • Preferred Requirements :

  • Passionate about finding areas of process / efficiency improvement and unafraid to drive positive change with more senior team members.
  • Able to plan around tight deadlines and balance multiple deliverables, while ensuring accuracy and attention to detail.
  • Well organized, efficient, and forward thinking.
  • Prior Opex (budget) management experience not just directly supporting budgets (i.e. blocking and tackling) but should have experience overseeing a team of Finance Analysts, reviewing their work and forecasts, helping to drive the overall process, summarizing and presenting results and partnering with senior leaders.
  • Candidate needs to have past exposure to the full P&L, which means having worked with Bookings, Revenue, Gross Margin, either in a prior FP&A consolidation role or in past BU Controller role.
  • Should have prior leadership / management experience and is comfortable working with Senior leaders both in Finance and the business.
  • Why Cisco

    WeAreCisco. We are all outstanding, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters - with people like you!

    Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We’re the Internet’s optimists. Our technology makes sure the data traveling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it’s not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We’re helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges, and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. We’re helping businesses of all shapes and sizes to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world - whether through 5G, or otherwise.

    We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another - from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).

    We know that powering an inclusive future starts with us. Because without diversity and a dedication to equality, there is no moving forward. Our 30 Inclusive Communities, that bring people together around commonalities or passions, are leading the way. Together we’re committed to learning, listening, caring for our communities, whilst supporting the most vulnerable with a collective effort to make this world a better place either with technology, or through our actions.

    Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

    Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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