96907-1 Finance Manager

Job Description: 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