Senior Manager, Financial Analysis CCS

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Position Overview

We are looking for a Senior Finance Manager to join Autodesk's COO Finance organization. You will report to the Finance Director BP&PM Field Analysis & HQ Forecasting and lead a team of three finance professionals. You will support the Global Commercial Customer Success organization on forecast process, business analytics, performance measures and data driven decision making. This role partners cross functionally across senior leadership to understand and convert the corporate strategy into financial measures and processes.

You must partner with business leaders, yet follow your fiduciary responsibilities as a member of the finance organization. You will demonstrate outstanding critical thinking, excellent collaboration skills, strong financial aptitude and business intuition, and the capability to work at multiple levels, while focusing on the daily financial details.

The ideal candidate will be leading the team to deliver valuable business support, while adding new systems and technology (e.g. Anaplan, Qlikview, Power BI) and aligning with the evolving top line metrics (Billings, ACV, Revenue, ARR and Subscriptions). In addition, the right candidate will possess strong aptitude for financial planning and analysis, building and delivering reliable, accurate and timely data, modeling and analyses, and being able to understand and articulate business impact beyond numbers.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop a high performing finance analysis team.
• Establish strong partnership with COO Finance and Field Operations leaders to deliver top line metrics and analyses while driving best practices globally.
• Engage in planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting of financial performance across WW Territories teams.
• Work collaboratively with other finance functions including, HQ, Tax and Treasury to align financial reporting and forecasting.
• Communicate effectively process updates, key deliverables, and timelines to the team and stakeholders.
• Act as key interface with Finance HQ and Systems Team to ensure information requirements align with Corporate and COO Finance strategy.
• Oversee quarter end executive reporting and presentations, including quarterly operations review and quarterly business reviews.
• Support the FA team through quarter end close and GEO End of Quarter process.

Top 5 Signs That You’re a Strong Candidate

You are an outstanding people manager, with a proven track record of developing high performing fulfilled teams and succession plans.   You have strong critical thinking skills. You know how to navigate through the company’s systems and network of people to get the information you need. You know how to model and interpret large volumes of complex data to identify valuable trends and insights. You’re an effective communicator. You don’t get lost in the detail; you can tell the story behind the data with relevant and insightful conclusions in a clear, concise manner. You know how to prioritize and proactively manage expectations. You believe in delivering value by leveraging resources effectively and building simple long-lasting solutions that scale effectively. You are technically sound, passionate about process improvement and automation and you create a team culture that rewards these competencies. You lead by example, you encourage and reward your team to be accountable, learn quickly from mistakes and focus on resolving. You believe that Accountability, Nimble Learning, Courage and Radical Collaboration are core values of high performing and fulfilled teams.

How You’d Spend Your Day

• Leading and developing a large diverse team
• Driving results by building scalable automated solutions and focusing on added value work
• Influencing through effective communication of ideas and proposals
• Partnering cross-functionally and globally in different projects
• Overseeing financial analyses

Job Requirements

• Bachelor in Accounting or Finance; MBA or CPA a plus
• Minimum 6 years of experience managing people, with demonstrated ability to develop talent, teams and build succession plans
• Minimum 10 years of finance experience, including Sales Finance
• Demonstrated ability to successfully influence senior management
• Advance excel and power point skills are a must. Familiar with Anaplan is a plus
• Strong aptitude for, and experience with, financial and performance management software (e.g. Busines