Finance Analyst- CA - FP&A (2-4yrs)

Meet the Team

Join Cisco's Global Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Center of Excellence (CoE) in Bangalore, where finance professionals partner with regional Sales, Services, and Business Entity leaders to drive strategic decision-making through financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and business insights.

As part of the APJC Finance organization, you'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver accurate financial analysis, support business performance, and enable data-driven decisions that contribute to Cisco's continued growth.

Your Impact

As a Financial Analyst, you will play a key role in supporting business performance by delivering financial insights, forecasting, and reporting that enable informed decision-making across the APJC region.

You will:

• Prepare and deliver financial reports, dashboards, and business performance analysis to support regional and global stakeholders.
• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasting, planning, and budgeting activities.
• Analyze bookings, revenue, margins, operating expenses, and headcount (HC) to provide actionable business insights.
• Support OpEx management, including purchase requisition (PR) approvals and accruals.
• Partner with business finance teams to provide timely financial analysis and recommendations.
• Perform variance analysis and identify business trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Act as a trusted finance partner, collaborating with cross-functional teams to support strategic business decisions.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to simplify reporting, improve data quality, and automate finance processes.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, or related field; CA or ICWA
• 2+ years of experience in FP&A, Business Finance, Commercial Finance, or Financial Reporting.
• Strong understanding of:
  • Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
  • Budgeting and forecasting
  • Financial reporting and variance analysis
  • Month-end close processes
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Experience using financial reporting tools such as Business Objects, Essbase, or similar platforms.
• Strong analytical, communication, stakeholder management, and business partnering skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, cross-functional, global environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a large multinational organization.
• Knowledge of Macros, VBA, SQL, or database concepts for managing large financial datasets.
• Experience developing financial models, dashboards, and reporting automation.
• Ability to connect Excel with external databases and build automated reporting solutions.
• Exposure to Power BI, Tableau, or other data visualization tools is an advantage.
• Continuous improvement mindset with a passion for automation, analytics, and process optimization.

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.