Senior Manager, Enterprise OpEx Analysis & Reporting – Cisco Marketing

San Jose, CA (Remote)

$180K/yr – $318K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive FP&A leadership for Cisco Marketing and Sales planning, coaching a team delivering OpEx reports, analyses, and ELT-ready outputs that influence GTM investments.

  • Own and develop a team delivering monthly/quarterly OpEx, variance analyses, and insights.
  • Must-have: Hands-on with Oracle Hyperion, Allocadia, and Hivemind.
  • Standout: ELT-ready outputs and executive communications with cross-functional partnership.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Coach and develop a team of junior analysts responsible for delivering monthly and quarterly OpEx reports, variance analyses, and financial insights to inform future quarter planning and programming.
  • Drive process improvements and system enhancements to enable new financial planning capabilities for Cisco Marketing and Cisco Sales, particularly around future Go-to-Market (GTM) investment planning.
  • Produce ELT-ready financial outputs that are repeatable, reliable, and defendable, including presentations, raw analysis, and executive communications.
  • Partner with other senior managers across the Cisco Marketing Senior Leadership Team and work closely with Cisco Corporate Finance leaders.
  • Provide decision support to the VP of Strategy, Planning& Operations and Chief Marketing Officer; this role does not have autonomous budget decision-making authority.
  • Support the implementation and optimization of financial planning and analysis tools, including Oracle Hyperion, Allocadia (Uptempo Spend), and Hivemind (Uptempo Plan).
  • Lead or contribute to enterprise-wide change management and project management initiatives as required.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business.
  • 8+ years of progressive experience in corporate finance, FP, or related roles at large, complex, multinational companies.
  • Demonstrated experience working in a highly matrixed environment.
  • Hands-on experience with Oracle Hyperion, Allocadia (Uptempo Spend Module), and Hivemind (Uptempo Plan Module).
  • Proven track record of precision in budget planning, programming, and execution reporting, with outputs suitable for ELT review.
  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills, including development of collateral for executive audiences (e.g., ELT-level presentations, analysis, and communications).
  • Experience coaching or managing junior analysts.

Preferred

  • Master of Business Administration (MBA).
  • Experience supporting Fortune 500 enterprise-wide change management or project management initiatives.

Benefits

  • medical, dental and vision insurance
  • a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
  • paid parental leave
  • short and long-term disability coverage
  • basic life insurance
  • 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 of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
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