Members of the Finance organization at select locations will generally be expected to follow a hybrid work model, which includes two days of in-office attendance each week, with limited exceptions.

Application window has been extended and expected to close on 03/14/2025. However, the job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applicants are received.

Meet the Team

The Global Procurement Services (GPS) Value Protection team works across GPS to support and enable Cisco’s business functions. We love to collaborate and partner to protect our company and our teams!

We advise our stakeholders on the standard processes for proactively mitigating risks through a finance-based, control-based approach. You’ll have the opportunity to build domain expertise across Cisco’s procurement practices.

You will be responsible for building & maintaining the Value Protection Forensics Program, which will allow Global Procurement Services to optimize the use of data to proactively analyze, assess, and mitigate risk throughout the Sourcing to Pay process.

Your Impact

Understanding of risk & controls, you will be able to:

• Design processes and test data, developing and evolving control points

• Identify control owners in the organization & keep owners accountable

• Perform controls assessments - know how to pull in relevant individuals to assess the activities

• Plugged into activities & projects in the organization to screen for compliance

• You will be able to step in as Program Manager for multi-functional initiatives

Business Analytics

• Verify business requirements with cross-functional business users and communicate the business needs to optimize on risk mitigation, controls, and compliance

• Complete business requirements documentation, process documents, test plans, and user training

• Build and align roadmaps, and define interdependencies between data, tools, systems and processes

• Provide and share metrics post event/activity to determine value and business risk

• Work within deadlines to complete high quality deliverables on or ahead of schedule

• Support areas as needed in various risk mitigation activities

Metrics Dashboards / KPIs

• Analyze and monitor trends, develop or evolve critical KPIs

• Maintain a standard GPS metrics dashboard for controls and risk mitigation

• Partner with data and reporting teams to build new metrics/KPIs to support business needs

• Maintain metrics and develop action plans for Continuous Improvement

• Work with teams to build and present monthly partner risk & compliance packages

Stakeholder Relationships

• Work with business users to identify and document requirements; collaborate with GPS and IT teams on solutions and incorporate enhanced functionality into our forensic analytics

• Be adept in cross-functional and organizational collaboration, influence, negotiation and communication

• Communicate & collaborate at all levels of the organization

Forensics Program Oversight

• Own, govern and continuously improve the risk forensic analytics program for GPS Value Protection

• Provide design, insight and preemptive forensics approaches/controls/algorithms to mitigate risk preventing fraud

• Work alongside GPS teams to develop and evolve long-term data control analytics strategies while consistently driving planned activities

• Design, implement, lead and track adoption of new programs and tools

• Identify simplification and automation opportunities to increase scalable governance and risk mitigation within the procurement cycle

• Able to handle multiple priorities and initiatives with confidence in a dynamic environment

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree plus 6-8 years experience in Finance, Internal Audit/Sox and Risk Management (controls/compliance/fraud)

• You have a proven record of driving projects and working multi-functionally to deliver results

• Confirmed understanding and experience with MS PowerPoint, Word and Excel

Preferred qualifications

• Master of Business Administration and Six Sigma Certification a plus

• takes initiative to understand the business and issues by investigating and analyzing details & data

• is a strong analytical and critical thinker with the ability to tackle sophisticated problems

• has a track record of delivering high impact, multi-functional efforts with outstanding teamwork and ability to influence others

#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an inclusive future for all.

We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we’re "old" (36 years strong) and only about hardware, but we’re also a software company. And a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do - you can’t put us in a box!

But "Digital Transformation" is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)

Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.

So, you have colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us!

Procurement

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.