Renewals Finance Controller

Cisco Systems; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems is seeking a highly motivated Finance Controller to join their Customer Experience Finance team in Toronto. The role involves analyzing financial metrics, reporting trends, and collaborating with various teams to drive financial strategy and operations. This position requires a strong educational background in finance and significant professional experience, with a focus on making impactful decisions in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of working experience in Finance required.
• High proficiency in Microsoft Office and Business Objects.
• Must be highly motivated and able to manage multiple tasks.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, interpret, and forecast key financial metrics.
• Report key metrics including renewal rates and bookings.
• Develop the processes to operationalize both forecasting and reporting.

Skills

Financial Analysis

Forecasting

Communication

Analytical Skills

Education

BS degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics

MBA

Tools

Microsoft Office

Business Objects

Job description

What You’ll Do:

An excellent opportunity is now available to join the Customer Experience (CX) Finance organization. The CX Finance team is looking for a highly motivated Finance Controller with the desire to be a difference maker, lead a team and change and help shape business and financial strategy for Cisco's Americas CX Renewals organization.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze, interpret, and forecast key financial metrics: ATR, Renewal Rates, iACV, Attrition, Bookings, etc.
• Report key metrics, including renewal rates, attrition, ATR, as well as more traditional bookings measures.
• Define the future models for forecasting and reporting.
• Develop the processes to operationalize both forecasting and reporting.
• Help CX leadership interpret analytics, gain insights, and understand key trends in the business.
• Presenting and sharing materials with Executive Leadership Teams for Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly results and Forecasts.
• Sales compensation - collaborating with operations teams to understand and resolve complex issues related to compensation and goaling.
• Setting Annual iACV and Bookings Targets for annual Goals, including cascading goals within Anaplan.
• Drive and own SMR/ATR/Renewals Transformation.
• Develop analytics that will tell CX leadership what’s working, and what’s not.
• Drive annual plan process - work with CX & CX Finance leadership, Sales Finance to drive the annual planning cycle.
• Help define the future models for forecasting and reporting, including iACV.
• Develop the processes to operationalize both forecasting and reporting.
• Work with CX Sales.
• Help CX leadership interpret analytics, gain insights, and understand key trends in the business.

The Team:

As a CX Renewals America’s team leader, you will manage the CX Americas finance team and will be partnering with Americas CX Renewals VP, strategy & planning, sales, extended finance (Regional Sales Finance), IT and operations. You will develop productive working relationships with CX Finance as well as with these other teams.

Our minimum requirements:

• BS degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics, or related field, MBA
• 8+ years of working experience in Finance
• High proficiency with Microsoft Office, Business Objects.
• Must be highly motivated; able to manage multiple tasks.
• Advanced proficiency in English, both written and verbal.

Preferred Qualifications:

• High-tech industry experience is a plus

Why Cisco:

At Cisco, each person brings their unique talents to work as a team and make a difference.

Yes, our technology changes the way the world works, lives, plays and learns, but our edge comes from our people.

We connect everything – people, process, data and things – and we use those connections to change our world for the better.

We innovate everywhere - From launching a new era of networking that adapts, learns and protects, to building Cisco Services that accelerate businesses and business results. Our technology powers entertainment, retail, healthcare, education and more – from Smart Cities to your everyday devices.

We benefit everyone - We do all of this while striving for a culture that empowers every person to be the difference, at work and in our communities.

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Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.