Cost Accounting Data Analyst

Company: Cisco
Location: Austin
Posted on: November 19, 2023

Job Description:

What You'll Do You will be the primary interface for Cisco's Manufacturing Partners, responsible for the following: cost analysis in driving Cisco's should-cost should cost model and other applicable commercial issues. You will drive annual/quarterly/monthly financial planning, report on performance to plan, and perform risk and opportunity analysis. You will unlock value for the business by diving into and creating additional complex cost models, alignment with industry EM industry analytics charting the path to ensure success for all customers You will lead change through complex, yet transformational initiatives focusing on the development of improvements to our should cost model keeping it current with industry trends and metrics. Foster cross-functional collaboration between engineering, procurement, and should-costing teams.

• Provide estimates for manufacturing costs of target products
• Evaluate different TAN's within a product family, to determine how costs and manufacturing complexity vary
• Validate or challenge supplier quotes/pricing through fact-based should-cost models
• Negotiate product manufacturing prices with EMS partners using should-cost models
• Track should-cost against variables that change over the lifecycle of a product such as
  • Changes in product yields
  • Changes in product mix
  • Productivity improvements
  • Cost trends for raw materials and transformation
  • Develop strategies for the advancement of analytics in alignment with business and enterprise level initiatives and priorities.
  • Develop integrated roadmaps for analytics capability development using internal and external resources.
  • Lead cross-functional teams that determine, define and deploy highly complex predictive/prescriptive analytic solutions to meet business goals.
  • Evaluate business objectives, determine partner needs and identify requirements.
  • Provide cost analysis of Cisco products manufacturing, choose best fit methods, define algorithms, validate and deploy models to achieve business results.
  • Preform necessary data preparation and enhancement to models.
  • Build and develop new methodologies to address unmet analysis needs. Analyze products (both NPI and sustaining) for potential cost reductions, find opportunities to improve/reduce product manufacturing costs using knowledge of fabrication processes, tooling and production equipment, assembly methods, quality control standards, or product design. Who You'll Work With You will partner cross-functionally with teams from different regions, functions, and across different product lines to drive cost optimization through the should cost implementation for entire our product portfolio. Who You Are 10 years experience in activity based cost accounting 10 years experience working in a contract based manufacturing environment Experience with data extraction and data modelling Preferred experience with Python and Snowflake

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