James Parker

About James Parker

FINANCE EXECUTIVEBusiness Partnership | Accounting, Planning, Reporting & Compliance | Business Processes & Systems7 years of experience in a wide range of finance positions; Led large global finance teams (up to 350 people in 23 countries); Known for leading progressive change and implementing solutions; High energy leader with strong vision and proven track record for execution; Creates win-win results with customers, business partners and cross functional organizationsEXPERIENCE SUMMARY• Strong business partner experience including partner to Cisco CGO & EVP of Customer Advocacy and President Lucent Communications Applications Group• Founding member of the Cisco Globalization Center in Bangalore, India which is driving significant change to Cisco’s business in the form of new industry creation and creation/selling of new business models• 4+ years of financial process and system implementations, including leading several large global teams and the successful implemention of ERP systems and reporting and compliance tools enabling significant process improvements in all ERP systems, Reporting, Revenue, Commissions, Capital Financing, and Customer Data• 3+ years of FP & A and Reporting experience with proven track record of creating effective analysis for strategic decision making while increasing accuracy and efficiency in the process• Strong Accounting & Compliance experience with expertise in Revenue Recognition, SEC reporting, general accounting, cash, tax, AP/AR, Capital Financing, Consolidations, Fixed Assets, etc.• External Recognition in Revenue Recognition and Globalization; featured in accounting and high tech magazines and asked to participate in panels and key note speaking engagements for technical fields, globalization and diversity

Experience

1. CFO, Cisco Globalization East

   Cisco

   Jul 2007 — Present

   Successfully implemented vision for a shared support Financial Planning & Analysis team supporting US Enterprise, Service Provider and the consolidated US Theater. Created & led the US Theater Operations Team supporting commissions, sales crediting, and customer validation activities for the US Theater Sales Organization. Developed a team of 80 full-time and contractor headcount.• Cultivated an organization that was able to drive significant change in Sales Finance resulting in dramatic productivity improvements (approx 30%) and increased data quality and analysis capabilities, all with direct benefit to the Sales organization. Nearly all initiatives were later driven worldwide• Reduced reporting time in consolidation team from 15 days to 1 day. Eliminated 200 hours of reporting hours while doubling the number of analyses created. Increased data accuracy and provided enhanced flexibility to the analysts.• Implemented various financial process and systems solutions such as Essbase for SF Reporting, Bookings Visibility and Customer Data Vallidation which improved accuracy of US Theatre data by 15%• Led the Sarbanes-Oxley non-standard deals remediation process with a cross-functional team involving extensive partnership with PwC & the Corporate Controllers Organization resulting in favorable results for FY’04. These results were obtained after hours were spent by Cisco employees in Sales Finance, Legal, Customer Service, CA & Corp Revenue in two months

Education

• Harvard Business School

  Executive MBA

  2006 — 2007