Director, Product & Platform Central Finance

Position Overview

The Director of Product & Platform Central Finance will shape strategy and facilitate the continuous advancement of the product strategic finance function. This role will partner with the business for key deliverables and projects and collaborate with other product and platform finance teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive consistent industry and product level topline reporting, forecasting, root cause analytics to support timely performance insights and decision making.
• Create consistent approaches for new/existing deliverables.
• Create efficiencies by centralizing, standardizing and automating processes that are common across the product and platform finance teams.
• Partner with C-Level executives and peer finance leaders supporting the Autodesk product and platform teams.
• Collaborate deeply with other finance leaders in FP&A, accounting, tax, IR and treasury.
• Arrive at, develop and retain world-class corporate finance talent.
• Establish and evolve pricing and packaging analysis playbooks to support pricing and promotion decisions.
• Develop and provide consistent unit economics reporting and insights by industry and product.
• Manage the product and platform finance calendar.
• Develop process and templates supporting Autodesk's financial long-range and annual planning by industry and product.
• 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, including due diligence and integration.
• Centralize, standardize and automate headcount and spend processes, such as forecasting, closing, and spend analytics.
• Lead team: Design organizational structure, capacity and capabilities needed. Attract, retain and develop a team of top performing finance professionals.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in strategic finance roles, especially in financial planning & analysis, ideally at a large public software company.
• 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 with a proven track record of excelling in high-performance, analytic and data-driven cultures.
• Solution-driven, innovative, and creative mindset.
• Zero-defect and principles-first mindset.
• Modeling and analytical skills are key to be a role model for the team.
• 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.