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

Budgeting

• Support business case development for funding requests
• 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
• Partner with Accounting on COGS vs OPEX classification
• Reconcile general ledgers against forecasted spend; 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

• STO’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 are able to 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.

Our minimum requirements for this role:

• BS degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics, MBA and/or certification a plus
• 8+ years of relevant experience with a background in finance and accounting
• Strong command of complex data modeling using Microsoft Excel, such as the utilization of pivot tables, vlookup, hlookup, xlookup, sumif, sumifs, countif, if/and/or
• 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
• Familiarity with finance tools (Business Object, Hyperion/Essbase, FinABC)
• Technical aptitude to quickly learn and adopt new tools