Finance Manager, Product and Technology
Cisco
Application window has been extended and expected to close on 01/13/2025
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Members of the Finance organization at select locations will generally be expected to follow a hybrid work model, which includes two days of in-office attendance each week, with limited exceptions.
Meet the Team
Join the Finance team in leading the business to the next phase of growth! We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our products and seek to deliver the best experience for our customers. We are committed to our work, customers, having fun and most importantly to each other’s success. Reporting to the Sr Director Finance, this FP&A Manager is an expert who will build functional spend models and apply heavy data analytics to understand core inputs to influence and shape strategy. This is an outstanding opportunity to be a key FP&A business partner supporting Cisco/Splunk’s world-class organization.
Your Impact
- Build and maintain financials models, product P&Ls for large businesses, business management metrics. Inform what the data is relaying while understanding the gaps and addressing those with long/short term plans.
- Prepare monthly and quarterly management reporting dashboards for executives - analyze results, distill/synthesize business performance indicators/metrics, assess business risk and operating performance. Timely communicate risks and opportunities.
- Establish positive relationships and become a strategic advisor for key engineering leaders and their respective teams allowing you to build a nuanced understanding of data inputs and outputs.
- Roll up your sleeves and assist in developing annual operating plans, quarterly and monthly financial forecasts, and ongoing analysis of actuals versus plan and/or forecast. Diving in the business to fully understand growth drivers and accelerators.
- Identify and drive optimization of financial performance through process improvement recommendations, influence leadership consensus, and implement solutions across the organization.
- Engage with management to model investment analyses and support contract negotiations for major expenditures. Additionally, review purchase requests to ensure accuracy and compliance with financial plan.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 6+ years of experience in FP&A (including at least a year of managing Product P&Ls, R&D budget) with a minimum Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with strong financial modeling experience. Able to dive in details as well as go elevated level to support senior execs.
- Demonstrated success in developing and applying Finance concepts, practices, and procedures. Outstanding forecasting methods and techniques. Advanced analytical and quantitative abilities with an emphasis on accuracy.
- Proven ability to work well under pressure, thrive in a fast-paced environment and stay flexible, agile through growth and change. Enjoys a highly collaborative environment with a high growth, start-up mentality.
- Strong systems (Hyperion, Anaplan) with advanced Excel modeling skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience and understanding of the SaaS business model.
- Understanding of CSP spend and forecasting.
- Masters Degree in Business
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Our passion is connection—we celebrate our employees’ diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.
We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer—80 hours each year—allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do!
Our purpose, driven by our people, is what makes us the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet. Helping our customers reimagine their applications, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals is what we do best. We ensure that every step we take is a step towards a more inclusive future for all. Take your next step and be you, with us!
When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.
Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:
.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.
For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.
