Position Overview

Autodesk is looking for a Senior Finance Business Partner to join our FP&A-AEC team. You will report directly to the Finance Director-AEC Industry Strategy and will partner with the Construction Strategy Team. The construction strategy team is responsible for business health, offering management, M&A and strategic planning. 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. Additionally, you will help support AEC industry strategy with horizontal projects to drive business growth through successful GTM strategy and execution across teams on AutoCAD and core AEC portfolio.

Candidate must have a strong blend of business and financial acumen coupled with a creative, flexible mind-set. Working knowledge of financial and strategic planning, accounting and business development is required. Must have outstanding quantitative skills and the ability to quickly understand the complexities and relationships of the company's evolving products, markets, competitors, partners, pricing and business models. Candidate must proactively provide analysis and and insight into the business -- uncovering outliers, leading indicators of failure and success, and using business metrics to help measure the health of the business. Able to work across a matrixed, multi-level organization to gather and synthesize information from a data perspective and effectively communicate and influence business stakeholders on a timely basis. We offer flexible hybrid work arrangements to our employees.

Responsibilities

• You’ll act as trusted advisor and be embedded in the leadership teams, providing counsel on where to invest or reallocate resources to achieve intended strategic outcomes
• You’ll be reviewing the actual results of the business KPIs; analyzing and articulating the financial impact of investments and driving maximized ROI
• You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to navigate through systems and people, to drive process improvement and enhanced reporting capabilities
• Provide financial support on go-to-market decisions (product tiering, market expansion, business model, pricing and M&A etc.) to build or validate financial models and articulate financial impact
• Participate in Quarterly Business Review preparations and partner with Strategy, Sales, Marketing, Product teams and their finance counterparts in interlock and check-in meetings to drive execution alignment to strategy and achieve growth
• Oversee and provide input to the Construction Long range plan (LRP) and annual topline targets and build growth assumptions
• Create business cases to drive new investments
• 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

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 in Finance, Investment Banking or Consulting
• Demonstrated capability to influence decision making at all levels
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Experience working in a global and matrixed environment
• Strong aptitude for, experience with, or desire to learn financial software (e.g. Anaplan, Power BI etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

• You know how to build relationships with individuals who are peers as well as those who are senior and junior to you
• You build trust with your team and the team you support, encouraging diverse perspectives
• You know when to have hard conversations – without ego, to drive better outcomes
• You have a passion to find more efficient ways of working and driving change in the teams you partner with
• You know how to influence and get decisions made
• You are 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
• You know how to influence at all levels within the company
• You adapt quickly to change and are comfortable with ambiguity
• You understand that change is constant in technology; change is expected and welcomed
• When you are met with ambiguity you ask questions and seek to understand
• You know what risks are yours to take individually, and what risks should be escalated for further review