Finance Analyst

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

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. in San Jose seeks a Finance Analyst supporting the West Area Sales Finance Controller to influence business performance through financial insight and strategic partnership.

You will support annual planning, forecast cycles, and expense management while strengthening internal controls and driving reporting automation to improve efficiency across the sales finance organization.

Qualifications

• 1-2 years of FP&A or related experience.
• Experience with financial modeling and forecasting.
• Strong communication and prioritization abilities.

Responsibilities

• Influence business performance through financial insight and strategic partnership.
• Partner with sales leadership to drive forecast accuracy and accountability.
• Automate reporting and streamline planning and expense management.

Skills

Financial modeling

Forecasting

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Prioritization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics

Tools

Salesforce 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.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

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 vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto the next
• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and
• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

$94,700.00 - $142,700.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$84,300.00 - $127,100.00

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.