{"id":3803152,"url":"https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-finance-analyst-7","title":"Finance Analyst","company":{"id":90,"name":"Cisco Systems","domain":"cisco.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/cisco-systems","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":84,"open_postings":284,"ghost_share":0.049,"stale_share":0.475,"repost_share":0.092,"time_to_fill_p50_days":26,"computed_at":"2026-11-10T06:52:35Z"}},"role":"Finance","role_family":"Finance","seniority":"junior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Bengaluru, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":1,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Microsoft Excel","optional":false},{"name":"SAP BusinessObjects","optional":true}],"status":"closed","first_seen_at":"2026-11-05T12:23:47Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-05","last_verified_at":"2026-11-07T15:01:01Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":"2026-11-07T15:01:01Z","days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"Meet the Team\nCisco’s Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Center of Excellence (CoE) in Bangalore is seeking a Financial Analyst to support the regional APJC Sales Finance team.\nThe team partners with regional Sales and Services organisations and Business Entities to deliver financial reporting, performance analysis, forecasting, planning, and business insights. By providing timely, accurate, and consistent financial information, the team enables business leaders to make informed decisions, manage expenses, and drive business performance.\nYour Impact\nAs a Financial Analyst, you will support the APJC Sales Finance team by delivering financial reporting, analytical insights, and planning support. You will work closely with business finance partners to monitor financial performance, analyse key business metrics, support expense management, and provide reliable data for forecasting and decision-making.\nYou will contribute to improving reporting accuracy, strengthening financial processes, and identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency through advanced Excel capabilities, financial modelling, and automation.\nWhat You’ll Do\nFinancial Reporting & Analysis: Prepare and deliver periodic financial reports, business metrics, analyses, and models to support the APJC Sales Finance team and overall business processes.\nPlanning & Forecasting: Provide timely, accurate, and consistent financial information to support budgeting, forecasting, business planning, and management decision-making.\n Financial Performance Management: Analyse bookings, revenue, margins, organisational expenses, and headcount (HC) to track business performance and identify trends or variances.\n Operating Expense Management: Support OPEX management through purchase requisition (PR) approvals, expense tracking, accruals, and related financial activities across assigned regions and Business Entities.\nBusiness Finance Partnership: Act as the primary finance contact for designated business finance partners, providing timely reporting, analysis, and financial guidance.\nDecision Support & Business Insights: Partner with the business finance team to understand underlying business performance, identify key drivers, and deliver actionable analytical insights.\nMonth-End & Financial Processes: Support month-end accounting activities, periodic performance reviews, and financial reporting processes to ensure accuracy and consistency.\nProcess Improvement & Automation: Identify opportunities to streamline reporting and improve efficiency using advanced Excel, macros, automated models, database connectivity, and analytical tools.\nWho You’ll Work With\nYou will be part of Cisco’s Global FP&A Center of Excellence in Bangalore, supporting the regional APJC Sales Finance team.\nYou will collaborate with business finance partners, regional Sales and Services teams, Business Entity stakeholders, and cross-functional finance teams to support financial planning, performance reporting, forecasting, and expense management.\nWho You Are\nYou are an analytical, proactive, and detail-oriented finance professional with a strong understanding of financial reporting, accounting principles, and business performance metrics. You can work with large datasets, translate financial information into meaningful insights, and communicate effectively with stakeholders across different levels of the organisation.\nYou demonstrate strong business partnering skills, personal integrity, accountability, and a forward-thinking approach. You are comfortable managing competing priorities, working collaboratively across functions, and identifying opportunities to improve financial processes through technology and automation.\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline, along with a CA or CMA.\n 1+ years of relevant experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), financial reporting, accounting, or business finance.\nStrong understanding of finance and accounting principles, including periodic performance reporting, OPEX budgeting and planning, forecasting, and month-end accounting.\nAdvanced Microsoft Excel skills, with the ability to analyse large datasets and develop financial reports, models, and analyses.\nStrong analytical, problem-solving, and systems skills, with the ability to identify financial trends, investigate variances, and derive actionable insights.\nExcellent communication, stakeholder partnering, and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively across multiple organisational levels and functions.\nDemonstrated personal integrity, accountability, proactive thinking, and a results-oriented approach.\nPreferred Qualifications\nPrevious experience working in a large multinational organisation, preferably in a global or regional finance environment.\nWorking knowledge of financial reporting and analytical systems such as BusinessObjects, Essbase, or similar enterprise tools.\nExperience with Excel macros, VBA, automated reporting models, and advanced spreadsheet-based analytics.\nDatabase knowledge and experience working with large financial datasets.\nAbility to connect Excel to external databases and automate data extraction, reporting, and analysis.\nExposure to advanced data analytics and financial modelling techniques to support FP&A processes and business decision-making.\nWhy Cisco?\nAt 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.\nFueled 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.\nWe are Cisco, and our power starts with you.\nDisclaimer\nTo ensure that we hire the best talent in the right way, we follow a strict hiring process and recently, Cisco has been made aware of fraudulent recruiters claiming to be from the company. Please be advised that any communication from Cisco about careers will:\nbe in direct response to an application you have submitted through the company career site\nbegin with screening or an interview\noriginate from a Cisco email address, and\nbe conducted across email, phone, or WebEx\nCisco will never make a job offer without conducting an interview process or ask you for money in any way. If you have been requested to apply for a role or have received an offer from a site other than https://careers.cisco.com or cisco.wd5.myworkday.com, do not provide any personal identifying information, including your Aadhaar or other personal identifying number, birth certificate, banking information, driver's license, or passport.\nIf you are the target of a recruiting scam, consider filing a report with your local law enforcement authorities. 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