Business Analyst - (2-5 years of relevant Finance or Operation Analytics Experience in a dynamic technology environment, Strong financial modeling and analytical skills

Meet the Team

Cisco Services is an award-winning organization that supports thousands of critical networks around the world every day. Our outstanding people, processes, systems, and capabilities are at the core of enabling and accelerating customer success. The CX Finance team is composed of dedicated, hardworking people who work in an empowered collaborative environment.

You will work with CX Finance teams and support the success of the CX Leadership Team. In doing so, the more teams you partner with, the better! We are a matrixed Finance organization, and partnership across other Finance teams is part of daily life. You will provide guidance and facilitate the development of cost and pricing models for Service products, as well as tools for internal deal approval process. Manage Customer P&L's and provide trends by customer including bookings, discount, revenue, margin across different views

Your Impact

You will be a Business Analyst responsible for the development and maintenance of CX key decision enablement programs.

Demonstrate technical and analytical capability to provide the trends by customer including bookings, discount, revenue, margin across different views. You will also be responsible to create and enable decision making methodologies for Cisco Services deals. This function is crucial to the organization in which it enables accurate financial decision making for the Services deals. The outcome is then being used globally by commercial Finance and Deal Consultant as part of the Service deal component assurance and approval process. You will provide guidance and facilitate the development of cost and pricing models for Service products, as well as tools for internal deal approval process. Develop Cost Modelling methodology for TSS Cost Engine - You will be responsible to develop robust Cost Model to provide Service Cost to Service Deals in MDM which would enable to calculate the Booked Gross Margin for the deal.

Responsibilities:

• You will work closely with OneX finance, OneX Organization, Corporate Finance, Planning Performance Management Transformation (PPMT), CXPM, Finance Transformation Office (FTO), IT Finance, OneX Ops.
• Part of Decision Enablement Projects team to support CX Large & Sophisticated deals globally
• Support My Deal Manager (MDM) service cost model for different service offers and monetization types by working closely with Global Delivery Organizations, CX Product Management, and BU Product Management team.
• Provide analysis for global service delivery costs by region, by technology and by CX offer
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• MBA, Bachelor’s degree in finance, Computer Science or related field
• 2-5 years of relevant Finance or operation analytics experience in a dynamic technology environment
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills. Emphasis on Services financials.
• Proficient in MS Excel (pivot tables, vlookups, etc) with the ability to manipulate, extract, analyze and report large data sets.
• Experience in ETL Tool Kettle and Linux System.
• Good working knowledge in PLSQL programming and Oracle Database.
• Understanding of financial concepts & statistical models.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Python programming experience.
• Knowledge in snowflake database.
  
  

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