Finance Analyst

Cisco; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Matching

Parental Leave

Job summary

Cisco is seeking a Finance Analyst to support the West Area Sales Finance Controller. You will influence business performance with financial insight, partner with sales leadership, and drive accountability across the organization.

Responsibilities include planning, forecasting, and expense management, with a focus on improving forecast accuracy and financial decision-making. Collaboration across teams and continuous process improvement are core to the role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field.
• 1-2 years of progressive experience in FP&A, Commercial Finance, Sales Finance, or Business Finance.
• Exposure to financial modeling, forecasting, planning, and analytical skills.
• Strong communication skills.
• Experience managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Influence business performance through financial insight and strategic partnership.
• Support annual planning, forecast cycles, pipeline analysis, and expense management.
• Drive continuous improvement by simplifying processes and automating reporting.
• Ensure compliance with corporate policies and strengthen internal controls.

Skills

Financial modeling

Forecasting

Planning

Analytical skills

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field

Tools

SFDC

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

Meet the Team

US Commercial Finance partners directly with one of Cisco's largest sales organizations, helping shape strategy, drive growth, and influence key business decisions. Our team is known for combining strong financial rigor with a business-first mindset, serving as trusted advisors to sales leadership. While we're distributed across North America, we operate as one highly collaborative team that values curiosity, continuous learning, and helping each other succeed.

Your Impact

As the Finance Analyst supporting the West Area Sales Finance Controller, you will play a critical role on the team in influencing business performance through financial insight, strategic partnership, and operational excellence. You'll help leadership make informed decisions, improve forecast accuracy, and drive accountability across the organization.

Business Insights

Support annual planning, forecast cycles, pipeline analysis, discount governance, and expense management while improving forecast accuracy and business predictability.

Compliance

Champion a culture of financial integrity by ensuring compliance with corporate policies, strengthening internal controls, and safeguarding company assets, including lab and demo loan programs.

Operational Excellence

Drive continuous improvement by simplifying processes, automating reporting where possible, and leveraging data to improve financial decision-making. Support annual planning readiness activities, organizational hierarchy updates, and process enhancements that improve efficiency across the finance organization.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field
• 1-2 years of progressive experience in FP&A, Commercial Finance, Sales Finance, or Business Finance
• Exposure to financial modeling, forecasting, planning, and analytical skills
• Strong communication skills
• Experience managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in annual planning, forecasting, quota/goaling processes, and expense management.
• Practical application of AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor) to improve financial analysis, automate workflows, or increase productivity.
• Familiarity with Salesforce (SFDC), Tableau, Power BI, or other business intelligence and analytics platforms.

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.

The starting salary range posted for this position is $94,700.00 to $124,100.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks.

Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies:

10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible v