Key skills
CGoAnalyticsSaaSLeadershipCommunicationDecision Making
About this role
Role Overview
- Drive consistent industry and product level topline reporting, forecasting, root cause analytics to support timely performance insights and decision making
- Drive product and platform financials and insights for QBRs
- Design and maintain a consistent portfolio approach to optimize our allocation of product investments
- Develop and provide consistent unit economics reporting and insights by industry and product
- Develop and align on allocation principles and methodologies
- Work with peer and technology teams to evolve data availability and reporting
- Establish and evolve pricing and packaging analysis playbooks to support pricing and promotion decisions
- Ensure access to relevant cost and topline data
- Share findings with executives and influence decision making
- Develop process and templates supporting Autodesk’s financial long-range and annual planning by industry and product
- Mange the product and platform finance calendar
- Evolve the product hierarchy for internal and external reporting addressing both internal needs and investor expectations
- Drive automation of all repeatable product and platform finance processes
- Contribute to the Board and CEO-Staff materials for the key milestones of our strategic and annual planning process
- Develop playbooks for the product and platform finance teams to conduct financial modeling and evaluation of potential deals
- Centralize, standardize and automate headcount and spend processes
- Design organizational structure, capacity and capabilities needed
- Attract, retain and develop a team of top performing finance professionals
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in strategic finance roles
- Proven experience in product and go-to-market/corporate FP&A
- Proven experience in partnering with C-Level executives at large public companies
- Experience in finance support of M&A deals
- Experience in both SaaS and Consumption business planning, operating, reporting and pricing & packaging
- Strong accounting and financial planning process and systems leadership experience
- Skilled at working across multiple levels, including high level strategy and insights thinking to disciplined processes leadership of complex planning cycles
- Solution-driven, innovative, and creative mindset
- Zero-defect and principles-first mindset
- Ability to be hands-on where needed
- Proven track record of financial systems, process & tools improvement/automation
- Strong people leader with proven experience managing global teams and a demonstrated track record of building & elevating high performing teams
- Excellent communication, presentation and facilitation skills with a proven ability to work collaboratively & influence across all levels of leadership
- Ability to travel approximately 20% of the time
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, business, accounting, economics; MBA preferred
- Background in management consulting, investment banking, or equity research preferred
Benefits
- Health and financial benefits
- Time away
- Everyday wellness