CX Americas FP&A Manager

  • Location:
    RTP, North Carolina, US
  • Area of Interest
    Finance
  • Compensation Range
    118700 USD - 152700 USD
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    *None
  • Job Id
    1440756

The application window will close 22nd July 2025. Preferred Location : North Carolina

What You’ll Do

An excellent opportunity is now available to join the Customer Experience (CX) Finance organization. The CX Finance team is looking for a highly motivated Finance Manager with the desire to be a difference maker, lead change and help shape business and financial strategy for Cisco's CX Americas FP&A organization.

As a Cisco CX Americas FP&A Finance Manager, you will support the Americas CX monthly, quarterly, and annual planning processes including bookings, revenue, COGS and P&L plans. You will engage with the Americas Theater Finance Managers, Financial Analysts, and business team members to develop actuals variance, forecast projections, and key related analytics to drive gross margin accuracy. You will socialize and maintain related reporting in partnership with the Sales Finance, CX WW FP&A Team, and our FP&A Center of Excellence (CoE). Scope will continue to grow with the needs of CX such as ARR, CX Portfolio Views, and new/renew bookings analysis. A successful candidate will have high data integrity, can optimally derive insights from data trends, and drive executive communication/collaboration with business partners.

The role is critical to generating the necessary FP&A support to the CX Americas organization. The applicant will be very knowledgeable of the CX P&L. This role is critically important as accurate information will drive good business conversations and executive decision-making. Further analysis helps the business achieve margin targets and expectations to the street.

  • Lead P&L forecasting and analysis, including Revenue, COGS, and Services Gross Margin.
  • Support monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting; collaborate with global FP&A and business partners.
  • Drive annual planning, financial modeling, and process optimization through automation and best practices.
  • Consolidate and report on key CX metrics; report directly to the CX Americas FP&A Lead.

Who You'll Work With

You will work closely with CX Theatre Finance Managers, CX WW FP&A, CX Operations Managers, CX S&P, Theater Sales Controllers, CX Theatre VPs and Directors.

Who You Are

You are a highly motivated Finance professional with a solution-mindset, who applies critical thinking to solve problems. You are able to deliver on short term commitments while building for the long-haul and work independently, take initiative and do without being told. You can rapidly adapt to changes in a transformation environment and have superb interpersonal and time management skills. Your dedication to the team and willingness are able to produce high quality work products consistently.

Min Requirements :

  • BS degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics.
  • 7+ years experience in Finance, FP&A, business partnership.
  • Excellent command of MS Excel modeling (vlookup, lookup, sumifs, countif, if/and/or, pivot tables, etc.)
  • Ability to transform large data sets into business insights.
  • Familiarity with finance tools (Business Objects, MBR, SFDC, Cisco Ready)

Preferred Skills:

  • Technical ability to quickly learn and adopt new tools
  • High upbeat, and self-motivated, capable of working to firm deadlines
  • Confidence leading live Webex meetings.
  • Succinct communication; ability to explain complex concepts to a wide audience.
  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills, leadership potential

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. Simply put – we power the future.

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:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

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 (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter.  Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

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 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 up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

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