Finance Analyst

Finance Analyst

Looking for a Finance Analyst to join our dynamic Splunk Finance team that partners closely with the Splunk Platforms Business. We support financial planning, business insights, and strategic decision-making that help drive Splunk's broader success within Cisco. The team is collaborative, approachable, and easy to work with, creating an environment where cross-functional partnership and learning are highly valued. This opportunity offers a unique insider view into the integration of Cisco's largest acquisition while contributing to high-impact finance initiatives at the center of Splunk's growth.

Job Description

We are seeking a Finance Analyst to support COGS and gross margin management for the business. This role will be responsible for financial planning, analysis, reporting, and business partnership across COGS, infrastructure, headcount, product cost structures, and gross margin performance. The successful candidate will develop a strong understanding of the business's cost drivers and provide financial analysis that improves cost transparency, operating efficiency, and gross margin performance. A key responsibility will be developing and maintaining COGS models for new product introductions, including assessments of product economics, scalability, cost-to-serve, and long-term margin implications.

This role requires strong financial acumen, attention to detail, analytical and problem-solving skills, and the ability to build effective relationships across multiple organizations.

What You'll Do

Support COGS and gross margin planning, forecasting, reporting, and performance management, including variance analysis and clear insights for business and finance leaders.

Develop and maintain COGS models for new product introductions, incorporating infrastructure, cloud, licensing, support, operations, workforce, and scalability assumptions.

Analyze product economics, unit costs, cost-to-serve, and lifecycle gross margin implications to support product, pricing, and investment decisions.

Partner with Product Management, Engineering, Operations, and Finance stakeholders to evaluate product investments, architecture decisions, launch readiness, and resource requirements.

Monitor infrastructure, cloud consumption, and headcount costs while identifying trends, risks, and opportunities to improve cost efficiency and gross margin.

Build financial frameworks, dashboards, allocation methodologies, and scenario models that improve cost transparency and enable fact-based decision-making.

Required Qualifications

4+ years of experience in financial planning and analysis, business finance, cost management, product finance, or a related field.

Strong understanding of COGS, gross margin, unit economics, forecasting, and variance analysis, with experience developing financial models for new product introductions or product-level profitability.

Experience partnering with Product, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, or other cross-functional organizations.

Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and financial storytelling skills.

Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience with financial planning, reporting, or analytics tools.

Strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced and evolving environment.

Preferred Qualification

Knowledge of pricing, product profitability, and margin optimization strategies.

Experience with Tableau, Power BI, Hyperion, Anaplan, SAP, or similar financial planning and analytics platforms.

Demonstrated experience applying AI-enabled tools and automation to streamline financial processes, improve reporting efficiency, and enhance decision-making.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

The starting salary range posted for this position is $99,600.00 to $130,600.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and
• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

$120,000.00 - $181,000.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$106,700.00 - $160,900.00

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.