Manager, Controls and Compliance

Application window is expected to close on 09/29/2025.

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Candidates must be located in the posted locations.

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

Meet the Team

You will be part of the Financial Shared Services (FSS) team, working closely with leaders and key partners across the Corporate Controllers Group, Project Teams, SOX, IT, external auditors, and business finance. Together, this team develops, influences, and implements global financial policy and processes, building effective partnerships essential to success.

Your Impact

In this role, you'll lead all aspects of compliance across FSS, driving timely issue identification, root cause analysis, and remediation efforts. You will report directly to the VP, Finance and Corporate Controller. Your responsibilities include oversight of FSS operational and SOX controls and underlying processes, ensuring operational issues are linked to controls as part of remediation to maintain value controls. You will also coordinate operational control testing, prepare quarterly readouts, and handle the certification process. This role is exciting as it offers the opportunity to work cross-functionally, influence global financial policies, and chip in to maintaining strong compliance and control environments!

Lead compliance across FSS, working with leaders to drive timely issue identification, root cause, and remediation.

Report to the VP, Finance and Corporate Controller.

Supervise FSS operational and SOX controls and underlying processes.

Link operational issues to controls as part of remediation, ensuring value controls are maintained.

Handle operational control testing, preparation of quarterly readouts, and certification processes.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience required, preferably with a strong academic record.
• 10+ years of finance/accounting experience with knowledge of risk, controls, and compliance.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams.
• Shown ability to lead, plan, and deliver in a dynamic corporate environment with excellent accounting project management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to communicate efficiently with strong interpersonal skills.
• Strong communicator who succeeds in a dynamic environment with target dates.
• Knowledge of accounting and understanding of financial statement risks.
• Exposure to project management and experience implementing changes at Cisco.
• Capable of working cross-functionally and chipping in to timeframes.
• Ability to cultivate a positive work environment.

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. Simply put – we power the future.

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.