What You'll Do

- Margin & Revenue Forecasting: Manage corporate revenue planning and interlock processes across Supply Chain Operations, Supply Chain Finance, and Corporate Finance. Develop complex scenario-based models to project bookings, backlog, build, ship, and Factory Shipped revenue to derive accurate margin profiles.
- Strategic Data Intelligence: Perform deep-dive analyses to identify key business drivers, trends, and patterns. Translate complex datasets into actionable insights that inform strategic decision-making and business value cases.
- Process Transformation: Lead cross-functional initiatives to rationalize systems, tools, and data architecture. Drive automation and process improvements to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of corporate business planning.
- Stakeholder Partnership: Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders, providing technical expertise to interpret market challenges, mitigate risks, and optimize tactical and strategic plans.
- Project Leadership: Lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects. Define business requirements, model data flows, and negotiate alignment across internal and external stakeholders to ensure operational excellence.
- Mentorship: Provide guidance and direction to team members, fostering a culture of analytical rigor and continuous improvement.

Whom You'll Work With

You will partner across Supply Chain, Finance, and Operations, engaging with stakeholders ranging from early-career talent to executive leadership. Success in this role requires the ability to navigate complex organizational dynamics, actively listen to partner requirements, and influence outcomes that align with Cisco's strategic goals.

Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of experience, or Master's degree with 4+ years of experience in Supply Chain Operations, Finance, or a related field.
- Proven expertise in end-to-end planning processes, supply chain financials, product life-cycle management, and supply chain modeling.
- Exceptional analytical skills with a demonstrated ability to solve ambiguous, data-intensive problems.
- Strong track record of leading cross-functional teams, managing commitments, and holding partners accountable to shared goals.
- Proficiency in building robust, user-friendly scenario planning models that connect operational actions to strategic business outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications

- Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to convey complex insights to high-level stakeholders.

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 integral scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

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.

Role Purpose

Participate in feasibility and investment analysis for real estate development projects. With direction from project manager or director, conduct financial modeling, market research, and analysis of comparable asset performance. Coordinate with corporate Operations, Technical Services, Brand Management, Tax, Legal, and Finance Departments to ensure all issues relevant to development projects are properly identified, analyzed, and documented in the Company's capital papers.

Key Accountabilities

- Financial Modeling/Investment Analysis - Participate in financial modeling to include NPV, IRR, and earnings impact, by using proforma developed for Subject, proposed deal terms provided by VP of Development, and input as appropriate from Technical Services, Tax, and Financial Reporting teams. Review findings with Director or project manager to determine financial viability of project, and assist in developing proposed enhancements/modifications to deal terms to make each project meet the Company's returns requirements. Revise modeling/analysis/proposal, as necessary, throughout negotiations of deal terms.
- Market Feasibility Analysis - Participate in determining competitive set for hotel being analyzed ("Subject") by reviewing existing supply in market place and identifying competitive assets. Obtain historical occupancy and ADR performance for the competitive set from Smith Travel Research and counterparts at other lodging companies. Determine positioning of the Subject within competitive set, review historical supply and demand growth patterns for the competitive set, and identify any known additions to supply in the market. Project occupancy and ADR for the Subject and determine viability of the Subject within the market. Review analysis and findings with VP of Operations and VP of Development to obtain consensus on market feasibility. Projects include small or relatively simple competitive sets.
- Writing Capital Approval Papers - If the Company decides to pursue the project, participate in writing portions of the necessary approval papers for the Americas Operating Committee and the Executive Committee as directed (approval papers have historically ranged from 5 - 50 pages depending upon the size of the Company's investment, and include a description of the project, the dynamics of the competitive market, competitive properties, proposed positioning of the Subject, deal structure, S.W.O.T. analysis, and financial implications to the Company).
- Developing Proforma Income Statements - Obtain historical P&L; (profit and loss) statements for comparable assets from within the Company's estate, or from outside consultants. Review performance of competitive assets and similarities/dissimilarities between competitive assets and the Subject. Utilize most comparable key performance metrics from P&L; statements analyzed and occupancy/ADR projections developed during market feasibility analysis to develop proforma P&L; for the Subject. Review findings and support with VP of Operations and VP of Business Development,



and develop consensus on the Subject's projected performance.
- Market/Industry Research - Consult with industry contacts (e.g., consultants, real estate brokers, counterparts at other major lodging companies, etc.) and review industry publications/forecasts to remain knowledgeable of general market/industry trends and to facilitate market/industry research. Provide findings to project manager or director and internal clients to facilitate understanding of competitive fee structures for business segments (e.g., timeshare branding, etc.) which are new to the Company. In addition, provide a framework on the direction of industry trends and performance to assist in projecting hotel performance.
- Ad Hoc Investment Analysis Projects - May assist the Director of Investment Analysis or project manager with review of financial analysis conducted within other areas of the Finance Department. Assistance may include providing guidance to Finance Department on financial modeling and the Company's analysis policies or conducting financial analysis for non-hotel specific projects such as the Company's franchise development plan.

Key Skills & Experiences

- Education -
- + Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Hotel Management, or a relevant field of work, or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.

- Experience

- + 1-3 years progressive work-related experience in financial analysis, forecasting, statistical analysis, data mining and interpretation, or similar, with demonstrated understanding of multiple disciplines/processes related to the position.

- Technical skills and Knowledge -

- + Demonstrated effective verbal and written communication skills for the purpose of providing information to clients, vendors and/or staff. Must be able to work effectively with senior managers, possess strong relationship management skills, and well-developed negotiating and persuading abilities.
- + Demonstrated financial and business analysis skills, and demonstrated ability to analyze operating, forecast, and budget information. Demonstrated ability to use the results of analysis to make effective strategic decisions.
- + Demonstrated knowledge of financial statements, financial principles and the ability to convert them to use in the hotel industry.
- + Demonstrated PeopleSoft, Hyperion, or similar computer system experience preferred
- + Highly proactive and flexible competency levels with the ability to work with minimal supervision.
- + Demonstrated organizational skills and ability to manage multiple tasks/projects.
- + Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the relevant labor market, economic conditions, and industry trends. Demonstrated ability to analyze these factors and draw logical conclusions.
- + Demonstrated ability to use statistical mining software and related programs, as well as to generate documents or reports in EXCEL, Word and PowerPoint.

**_Please note that this is a hybrid position and requires going to the Guadalajara office 3-4 times per week._**

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We firmly believe that all our colleagues deserve to be treated equally and have the same opportunities to develop and grow their skills within our business and provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and colleagues without regard to an individual's, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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