What You’ll Do

As a member of the Acacia Sales Finance team, you will work closely with senior leaders across the world in the company’s Sales, Marketing, Operations and Finance functions, providing bookings, revenue and expense analysis and guidance to drive the business forward.

Key responsibilities:

• Development and review of financial models that support the business operations, including booking and revenue.
• Provide decision support with financial modeling, business analysis and financial management reporting and present recommendations.
• Creation of bookings and revenue forecasts, tracking of performance against those targets, handling bookings and revenue to be in compliance with GAAP and Cisco bookings policy.
• Review OpeX and CapEx spending with sales and marketing business partners to resolve required accruals, performance against plans and completion of forecast updates.
• Participate in weekly “real time” OpeX review.
• Partner with credit team to help handle bookings against customer credit limits against and outstanding accounts receivables.
• Participate in long range strategic planning (LRSP).
• Participate as financial representative on project teams as needed and other ad hoc projects as requested.

Who You'll Work With

You will work closely with Acacia Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance and Legal departments to provide financial data and analysis for decision support. You will also work with Cisco Sales, BU Finance and acquisition integration teams.

Who You Are

You have some sales and service finance knowledge in a multinational company. You have the ability to work in a demanding high-energy environment. You have strong analytical skills and strong interpersonal skills to influence others.

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree with 4-6 years of proven experience or Master’s Degree with 2-4 years of proven experience, in Accounting or Finance.
• Very strong financial analysis and reporting skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with some experience dealing directly with business partners.
• The ability to manage time and balance multiple priorities while moving with urgency.
• Experience with large ERP systems. Ability to extract, organize, analyze, and report data in a manner that is useful and relevant in support of business decisions.
• Experience with complex financial modeling, forecasting, planning, and data-driven analysis using current tools, applications and methods.
• Strong quantitative skills to analyze historic results and apply findings to forecasts and variance analyses.
• Expert level skills in Microsoft Excel with proficiency in Word, PowerPoint and Outlook, solid understanding of ERP based environments.

Desired Skills:

• Excellent communication and presentation skills; comfortable interacting with and presenting to executive-level management.
• Strategic thinker, creative problem solver with proven ability to engage in all areas of operational activities associated with the role.
• Ability to work quickly and accurately on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Sales support experience
• Knowledge of and experience with Cisco’s Sales and go-to-market model.
• Knowledge of and experience with Cisco’s ERP systems, reporting tools and processes.

Why Cisco?

#WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters – with people like you!

Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We’re the Internet’s optimists. Our technology makes sure the data travelling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it’s not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We’re helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. We’re helping businesses of all shapes and size to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world – whether through 5G, or otherwise.

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognise our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another – from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).

We know that powering an inclusive future starts with us. Because without diversity and a dedication to equality, there is no moving forward. Our 30 Inclusive Communities, that bring people together around commonalities or passions, are leading the way. Together we’re committed to learning, listening, caring for our communities, whilst supporting the most vulnerable with a collective effort to make this world a better place either with technology, or through our actions.

So, you have colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us! #WeAreCisco

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings. Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday, plus a day off for their birthday. Employees accrue up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year and have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues without tapping into their PTO. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees are also able to purchase company stock through our Employee Stock Purchase Program.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco pays at the standard rate of 1% of incentive target for each 1% revenue attainment against the quota up to 100%. Once performance exceeds 100% quota attainment, incentive rates may increase up to five times the standard rate with no cap on incentive compensation. For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.