Senior Financial Analyst, Corporate FP&A

Position Overview
We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Financial Analyst to support the Corporate FP&A team. Along with working on various high-visibility projects to accelerate the Future of Finance within the team, this person will also participate in the monthly forecast consolidation process and annual planning. This individual would support Finance Business Partners ("FBPs") of the company with spend planning and forecast consolidation, analysis, and reporting. The right person for this role will demonstrate strong potential for generating proactive data-driven financial insights to FP&A leadership, as well as the ability to work in a highly collaborative and dynamically changing business environment. Previous experience working with Anaplan models or headcount management tools is a strategic benefit for this role.

Responsibilities

• Subject matter expert for Autodesk’s corporate headcount planning model within Anaplan. The person in this role will focus on understanding the current forecast landscape and cultivate relationships among end users to create a best-in-class experience for a high visibility model

• Support FBPs during quarterly spend forecasting and planning cycles

• Assign priorities to model enhancements, partnering across disciplines to test and validate model changes

• Contribute to long-term Spend Planning roadmap discussions with leadership and stakeholders

• Partner with the headcount planning community to help educate and onboard new users to the Anaplan spend model ecosystem

• Main point of contact for Headcount data analytics

• Prepare monthly analysis & reporting for Treasury, HR and other teams

• Partner with key stakeholders to align on key headcount KPIs and definitions

• Explore and develop headcount analysis and associated dashboards to provide proactive insights and trends to executive leadership to aid in decision-making

• Expand current Corporate FP&A ecosystem of Anaplan training materials

• Partner with Corporate FP&A Senior Manager to create new employee training materials

• Contribute to FP&A SharePoint site resources and documentation

• Drive automation processes where possible to ensure scalability with certain key tasks performed by Corporate FP&A

• Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual spend forecasting and planning calendar, including engagement with various stakeholders on alignment of key dates

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance or equivalent

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage tight deadlines

• Enjoys problem-solving and working through ambiguous scenarios

• Strong Excel skills and an aptitude to learn other reporting tools and software

• Able to communicate effectively to various audiences

• Unwavering attention to detail

• Team player with adept soft skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Able to demonstrate knowledge of SAP, Anaplan, Business Objects and/or PowerBI

• Knowledge of GAAP; CPA or public accounting experience

• Previous participation in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for finance/accounting systems

• 5+ years of previous experience in a financial analysis role

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