Senior Business Analytics Manager

Autodesk is seeking a Senior Business Analytics Manager to support its Go-to-Market Finance organization. The role leads cross-functional analytics and AI-enabled workflow initiatives, builds scalable data products and reporting solutions, and translates complex business challenges into actionable insights for planning, forecasting, and decision-making.

Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end analytics and AI-enabled workflow initiatives, from problem framing and stakeholder alignment to solution design, insight generation, adoption, and measurable business impact
• Partner closely with Finance stakeholders to understand planning, forecasting and reporting workflows, and identify opportunities to improve them through data, automation, and AI
• Translate ambiguous Finance and business challenges into structured analytical frameworks, including data modeling, KPI design, forecasting, experimentation, and decision-support workflows
• Design and build scalable data products, including pipelines, tables, dashboards, reporting layers, and AI-ready datasets that enable automated, flexible, and action-oriented Finance analytics
• Build and test prototypes for AI-enabled Finance workflows, such as automated business review narratives, anomaly detection, variance explanation, forecast drivers, natural-language insight discovery, and self-service reporting
• Partner with Data Engineering, Finance Systems and central data teams to move prototypes into reliable, governed, production-ready solutions
• Define and standardize KPI frameworks for financial metrics ensuring alignment across Finance and business teams
• Design and scale dashboards, reporting solutions, and self-service analytics experiences that improve adoption, reduce manual reporting, and help business partners make faster, more consistent decisions
• Analyze business and financial metrics to uncover key drivers of growth, retention, churn, productivity, and efficiency, and recommend clear data-backed actions
• Establish scalable, repeatable analytics frameworks and best practices that improve Finance decision-making and create consistency across planning, forecasting, reporting, and business reviews
• Apply strong governance, quality control, and documentation practices to ensure AI-enabled workflows are accurate, explainable, secure, and appropriate for Finance decision support
• Communicate insights, recommendations, and roadmap tradeoffs to senior leadership through clear storytelling, executive-ready presentations, and concise written narratives
• Mentor junior analysts and contribute to raising the overall analytical, technical, and AI-readiness capabilities of the Business Analytics team

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a quantitative field
• 8-10+ years of experience in analytical fields such as consulting, strategic finance, BizOps, data science, business intelligence, data engineering
• Advanced SQL skills with the ability to work with large, complex datasets and multiple data sources
• Strong experience with BI and visualization tools such as Power BI, or similar platforms
• Experience partnering with Finance, GTM, or business leadership teams to support planning, forecasting, reporting, and performance management
• Demonstrated ability to structure ambiguous problems, perform deep analysis, and translate findings into clear business impact
• Experience designing scalable dashboards, reporting solutions, data models, or analytics products that improve self-service and reduce manual work
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing senior business partners and driving alignment across cross-functional teams
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distill complex analysis, technical concepts, and business tradeoffs into clear, actionable recommendations
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and deliver results in a matrixed environment
• Experience supporting Go To Market, SaaS, or subscription-based business models
• Experience building analytics, automation, or AI-enabled workflows for Finance, FP&A, GTM Finance, Sales Finance, or business operations teams
• Experience with Python or other statistical tools for advanced analytics, modeling, or experimentation
• Experience applying AI, machine learning, or generative AI capabilities to business workflows, such as automated narratives, anomaly detection, forecasting, natural-language analytics, document intelligence, or decision-support tools
• Experience designing AI-ready data products, semantic layers, metric stores, or governed datasets that support self-service analytics and workflow automation
• Experience building and deploying predictive models to forecast key metrics
• Experience designing an optimal decision support process, defining a product strategy to enable it, translating into a roadmap, and enabling it through technology
• Domain experience in FP&A and / or sales, marketing, and customer success operations
• Experience working in high-growth or transformation environments
• Strong understanding of responsible AI practices, including data quality, human-in-the-loop review, model limitations, explainability, and governance considerations