Cisico
Location
Bangalore | India
Job description
As a Business Analyst for the Revenue Planning group, you will focus on driving improved forecast accuracy. This includes managing the bookings, revenue and unit signal alignment across functions for these businesses. We are looking for a highly analytical supply chain professional who has a strong background in forecasting/demand planning/supply planning/revenue planning - with a strong understanding of how to aggregate and action information from Sales, Finance, Manufacturing Operations, Partners/Customers, Pricing and Marketing and use advanced analytics to build the best possible bookings, build, ship, and revenue forecast. As a Business Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in improving the accuracy of the revenue plan that will drive the entire supply chain fulfillment engine through our internal and external Supply Chain Partners.
Manage the Planning and Analysis to create the BE/Product Family Shipped Revenue forecast and interlock between Supply Chain Operations, BU Finance, Supply Chain finance and corporate finance.
Partner with Supply Chain fulfillment teams in Planning and Manufacturing operations to handle accuracy of forecast, attainment of the plan, Product Family and product line (BE/BSE) accuracy to enable the company's Gross Margin forecast accuracy.
Partner with the Business Planning Manager in the Product Planning & Fulfillment organization in adoption of the driver-based framework for OPT level execution in alignment to the Corporate and BE Operating Plan
Partner with Transformation team and Systems, Data and Analytics team to test the tools, systems and data that enable accurate revenue planning and execution orchestration.
Provide inputs into the training and onboarding curriculum for new hires in the Global Planning team to integrate into the Revenue Planning and Operating Plan process.
Youll work and partner across several functions in Supply Chain, Finance and Operations with people across a wide range of experiences, from early-in-career talent to executive leadership. The ability to listen and recognize the care-abouts of a variety of partners while influencing the right business outcomes for Cisco will be a key success factor.
You provide insights for the leadership to establish connections between supply chain actions and strategic business outcomes.
You have 5+ years of experience in analytical roles with a mindset for solving ambiguous problems using a data-driven approach.
You possess analytical skills to assess, frame and drive data-driven decisions. You can lead efforts to build models to analyze what-if scenarios for dedicated planning purposes
You have a proven ability to work with the senior team members to build elegant, user-friendly tools, models and/or applications and a strong track record of adoption by business users to drive value.
You can help in deconstructing a complex problem into a series of manageable questions which can be answered independently, and you can integrate the answers to these smaller questions and build a cohesive answer that solves the initial complex problem.
You have demonstrated the ability to adapt and learn to deliver outcomes within a short span of time.
You possess the ability to work with coaches and mentors to develop data modelling and data mining exercises, while also maintaining the conviction to challenge senior team members using analytical and actionable insights.
You can start innovation and process improvements to drive forecast accuracy / efficiency.
You are capable of initiating conversations to influence and drive better decisions with multiple stakeholders, often at the Manager levels.
You have a basic knowledge of how business is transacted through Ciscos systems and overall IT architecture.
You understand and align business needs to the IT architecture and ensure they support effective execution of the business at a basic level.
You can present your own position despite resistance or unfavorable reactions from others.
You have the conviction to take risks, make decisions and escalate when needed to achieve desired business outcomes.
You can run or learn to run statistical simulations, reasoning of errors and build what-if models
You develop in depth knowledge of forecasting techniques, business models, cisco product landscape and accuracy measures.
You have a basic understanding of accounting and financial concepts.
You possess ability to explain and influence driver-based demand - revenue - supply bridge at a basic level.
Why Cisco
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