Finance Analyst

Overview

Join the Devices Finance team within Cisco's Collaboration Finance group to support the Collaboration Devices business with financial analysis, reporting and AI-enabled finance solutions.

What you'll do

• Perform financial data analysis to provide accurate, timely and actionable insights that support leadership decision-making and improve operational efficiency.
• Support monthly and quarterly close activities through data validation, variance analysis of actuals vs. forecast, and period-over-period comparisons to identify drivers, trends, risks and opportunities.
• Monitor booking margins, discount structures and profitability trends, and provide actionable recommendations to support growth while maintaining strong financial performance.
• Extract, integrate and analyze large datasets using SQL, Python and appropriate data-processing technologies.
• Translate functional requirements into reporting solutions, calculation logic and data models.
• Design, build, test and implement AI/ML solutions for real finance and business requirements.
• Develop and maintain interactive dashboards and executive reports using Microsoft applications and AI tools.

What you'll need

• 2-4 years of experience and a Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business Administration, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AIML) or a related field.
• Good working knowledge of core finance concepts: financial statements, variance analysis, forecasting, and margin/profitability drivers.
• Strong financial analysis and business partnering skills.
• Strong technical expertise using AI tools (e.g., Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude) to analyze data, build models and streamline everyday reporting.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams in a complex business environment.

Nice to have

• Strong technical capabilities to leverage AI tools and scripting (e.g., SQL, Python) in financial data, forecasting and scenario analysis.
• Ability to communicate complex financial insights through clear and compelling business storytelling.
• Internship, coursework or project experience applying AI/ML or automation to a finance or business problem.