Senior Finance Business Partner

Position Overview

Autodesk is looking for a Senior Finance Business Partner to join our FP&A-PDMS team.  You will report directly to the Finance Director - Head of FP&A for PDMS and will partner with both the VP of Data Management and the VP of Platform. In this capacity you will serve as a trusted financial advisor, guiding and providing insights on investments, portfolio analysis and technology decision support, while adhering to your fiduciary duties as a member of the finance organization. You'll also lead financial consolidation for PDMS FP&A, tell the spend story of the division, and represent the division in technology rollout decisions and change management. The ideal candidate blends business and financial acumen with a creative, flexible mindset: strong working knowledge of financial and strategic planning, accounting, and business development; outstanding quantitative skills; and the curiosity to engage on complex technical topics. You're comfortable working across a matrixed, multi-level organization to gather and synthesize data, and to communicate and influence stakeholders effectively and on time. We offer flexible hybrid work arrangements to our employees.

Responsibilities

• Lead budgeting, forecasting, closing and reporting of financial performance for the Data Management and Platform organizations
• Own PDMS finance spend consolidation
• Represent PDMS finance in technology rollout decisions, testing, and change management

• Provide financial support for topline decisions (product tiering, business model, pricing, M&A) to build or validate financial models and articulate financial impact

• Drive ad-hoc financial analyses and models to inform and support recommendations and business cases
• Advise business leaders, primarily the VP and their staff, on business and financial decisions
• Partnering: You’ll act as a trusted advisor embedded in the leadership team, advising on where to invest or reallocate resources to hit strategic goals
• Analyzing business performance: You’ll be reviewing the actual results of the business KPIs; analyzing and articulating the financial impact of investments and driving maximized ROI
• Problem Solving: You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to navigate through systems and people, drive process improvement and enhance reporting capabilities
• Engaging with new technology: You’ll help lead our organization through technology changes, with a focus on driving clarity, favoring progress over perfection

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (finance, accounting, economics or equivalent preferred)
• CPA or MBA is desired but not required
• 8+years of finance and business partnering experience
• Prior experience supporting a software product organization preferred
• Ability to operate at both strategic and day-to-day levels
• Demonstrated ability to influence decision-making at all levels
• Effective & concise communicator
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Experience working in a global and matrixed environment preferred
• AI-first mindset with eagerness to experiment with emerging technology
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• Experience using technologies and tools, including dashboards, financial modelling software, and automation tools (e.g. Anaplan, Alteryx, Power BI, Power Query, Qlikview, SAP, Snowflake)

The Ideal Candidate

• Work well with others
• How to build relationships with individuals who are peers as well as those who are senior and junior to you
• Builds trust with your team and the team you support, encouraging diverse perspectives
• Knows when to have hard conversations to drive better outcomes
• A passion to find more efficient ways of working and driving change in the teams you partner with
• How to influence and get decisions made
• Skilled at determining the right level of information needed to make a decision, and you know how to navigate through the company’s systems and network of people to get the data and information you need
• How to influence at all levels within the company
• Adapt quickly to change and are comfortable with ambiguity
• Understands that change is constant in technology; change is expected and welcomed. When you are met with ambiguity you ask questions and seek to understand
• What risks are yours to take individually, and what risks should be escalated for further review

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