Finance & Accounting (US) - Financial Analyst

BayOne Solutions is seeking a Financial Analyst for a 6-month remote contract position. The role involves budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and ensuring compliance with financial policies while collaborating with various functional leaders to drive financial efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate business case development to support investment requests
• Perform cost analysis and what-if modeling to recommend funding deployment
• Work closely with functional leaders to distribute quarterly budgets
• Develop and maintain long-range and annual budgeting models
• Lead monthly forecasting with functional leaders and Business Operations
• Recommend risk/opportunity adjustments with an objective point of view
• Maintain headcount forecast modeling with precision
• Develop and maintain analyses, trends and metrics to influence/drive spend efficiency
• Facilitate transactional execution including stakeholder agreement, compliance check and system processing
• Advise the business on transactional accounting treatments and impact on the forecast
• Be an ambassador of Cisco’s financial policies – educate the business, enforce the policies, coordinate audits and remedial actions
• Lead the month-end close process; assess risks/opportunities in the forecast
• Lead all aspects of purchase order management and general ledger reconciliation
• Partner with Accounting on capitalized costs, amortization and payroll entries
• Reconcile general ledgers against forecasted spend; identify and resolve gaps
• Maintain alignment of departmental and P&L hierarchies
• Drive continuous process improvement; identify gaps, initiate and implement changes

Requirements:

• BS degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics, MBA and/or certification a plus
• 5+ years of relevant experience with a blend of FP&A and Accounting
• Demonstrated success partnering with business executives
• Ability to influence decisions using facts, data and sound business judgment
• Must be savvy with data modeling using Microsoft Excel
• Familiarity with finance tools (Business Object, Hyperion/Essbase, FinABC)
• Succinct communication and presentation skills
• You are a highly motivated Finance professional with a solution-mindset
• You apply technical and relationship skills to solve problems
• You can quickly adapt in a transformative environment and are able to meet short term deliverables while building for the long haul