Meet the Team

The Cisco Automation and AI Center is a newly established organization that brings together advanced AI expertise and Cisco’s industry leadership to accelerate enterprise growth and innovation. We are seeking an outstanding Financial Manager to support this dynamic team. Are you ready to be part of this exciting opportunity?

Your Impact

You will join Operations Finance as a Financial Manager leading all aspects of Cisco Automation and AI Center’s functional budgets and AI related investment deployment. Your responsibilities will include, but not be limited to the following:

Budgeting

• Support business case development for funding requests including special funding for AI and automation at Cisco
• Work closely with functional leaders and business operations to rationalize budgets
• Maintain projection models to support the annual budgeting cycle

Forecasting

• Prepare and facilitate monthly forecasting with functional leaders and Business Operations
• Ensure activities are properly forecasted and forecasted activities are properly executed
• Recommend risk and opportunity adjustments with an objective point of view
• Maintain headcount forecast modeling with a high degree of precision

Reporting & Analysis

• Prepare and distribute spend reports; validate transactional expenditures
• Develop and maintain analyses, trends and metrics to influence/drive spend efficiency
• Present financials to business partners and be able to explain actuals, trends, and variances

Transactions & Compliance

• Perform cost estimation to assess affordability for resource acquisition
• Facilitate transactional execution including stakeholder agreement, compliance check and system processing
• Advise the business on transactional accounting treatments and impact on the forecast
• Be an ambassador of Cisco’s financial policies – educate the business, enforce the policies, coordinate audits and remedial actions

Accounting Close

• Track QTD actuals and to-go activities to assess risks/opportunities in the forecast
• Coordinate timely and accurate PO accruals and closures
• Partner with Accounting on capitalized costs, amortization and payroll entries
• Reconcile general ledgers against forecasted spending; identify and resolve gaps

Process Improvement & Special Projects

• Maintain alignment of departmental and P&L hierarchies
• Identify, recommend and facility process improvement
• Provide support in special projects

Who You'll Work With

· Cisco Automation and AI Center’s Executives, Business Operations Managers, Central FP&A, Accounting

Who You Are

You are a highly motivated Finance professional with a solution-mindset, who applies critical thinking to solve problems. You can work independently, deliver on short-term commitments while building for the long-haul. You can rapidly adapt to changes in a transformative environment and have exceptional organizational and time management skills. You are a dedicated teammate, willing and able to produce high quality work products consistently.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics, MBA and/or certification a plus
• 6-8+ years of relevant experience with a background in finance and accounting (forecasting, reporting)
• At least 4 years of experience in budget management
• Strong command of complex data modeling using Microsoft Excel.
• Familiarity with finance tools (Hyperion/Essbase or SAP )

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Business Objects
• Ability to lead live Webex meetings and perform on-the-spot data analysis
• Capability to transform large data sets into digestible summaries
• Succinct communication; ability to connect the dots from the numbers to the business

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.