What you'll do

Cisco seeks a finance professional for Accounting Acquisition Integration. This position is looked upon as a trusted business advisor and partner. In this position you will be empowered to make a difference, establish a reputation, and position yourself for continued growth.

• Spearhead and lead statutory audit and tax filings in various geographies

• Responsible for Month Close activities: Review and ensure smooth month end close which includes Expense Accruals, Fixed Asset Depreciation, Prepaid Expense Amortizations, Transfer Pricing, and Intercompany Settlements

• Prepare, Review and Approve General Ledger Reconciliations: Opex Accruals, Tax Provisions, Fixed Assets, Intercompany Accounts, Goodwill, Intangible Assets etc

• Prepare Quarterly and Monthly Balance Sheet and P&L Flux Analysis for management reporting

• Monitoring the health & hygiene of the account balances vide timely and quality account reconciliations

• Review the financial results in the local GL and in the Consolidation GL for the Acquired entities and confirm that it includes all the entries required to ensure completeness and accuracy

• Compare the Trial Balance per local GL to the Trial Balance per Consolidation GL and ensure that no differences have been identified. And provide details and comments for any differences

• Responsible to ensure that all account reconciliations for the prior month have been appropriately completed, reviewed, and signed off and clear any significant reconciling items in the current month

• Responsible to notify the Corporate Controllers Group of any material adjustments to current period reconciliations and provide comments on significant outstanding reconciling items

• Review the Intercompany accounts and ensure that there are no unidentified differences

• Ensure strict compliance with Cisco’s Policies and Procedures for Accounting and Reconciliations.

• Ensure that all reconciliations have sufficient supporting documentation to substantiate current balances

• Identify and communicate any foreign exchange (FX) errors and issues to the controllership team and document them in the reconciliations.

• Work on Process improvements, Desktop Procedures, trainings, and knowledge sharing sessions

• Collaborate with stakeholders and drive process changes to improve efficiency

Who you'll work with

You will have an opportunity to work cross functionally with Business Finance as well as Corporate Development, Tax, Legal, and Treasury. This position resides in Global Accounting & Reporting (GAR).

Who you are

The ideal candidate demonstrates attention to detail with strong Excel skills, collaboration and interpersonal skills, and the ability to efficiently partner and influence colleagues; as well as experience with Statutory audits, intercompany accounting, FX.

• Motivated, independent and accountable

• Proven ability to prioritize

• Audit assurance experience in handling & completion of audits of large US MNC subsidiaries in IT/Telecom industry and/or other industry experience of first hand on exposure of statutory audit and tax audit

• Quick to adopt challenge

• Ability to present data as meaningful information to leadership teams as well

• Ability to optimally partner cross-functionally with finance and non-finance organizations

• Personal integrity; drive for results; forward thinker; performance-oriented, proactive and cross functional thinker

Our minimum requirements for this role:

• CA / ICWA / MBA with of 5-9 years’ experience

• Hands on experience in handling legal entity controllership activities as per US GAAP, IFRS and IGAAP

• Hands on knowledge of Oracle Financials ERP, Microsoft Navision, Salesforce, Microsoft Excel, PPT, Word and other office tools

Why cisco

At Cisco, each person brings their unique talents to work as a team and make a difference.

Yes, our technology changes the way the world works, lives, plays and learns, but our edge comes from our people. We connect everything - people, process, data and things - and we use those connections to change our world for the better. We innovate everywhere - From launching a new era of networking that adapts, learns and protects, to building Cisco Services that accelerate businesses and business results. Our technology powers entertainment, retail, healthcare, education and more - from Smart Cities to your everyday devices. We benefit everyone - We do all of this while striving for a culture that empowers every person to be the difference, at work and in our communities.

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Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.