Industry/Product topline and unit economics reporting and analytics: Drive consistent industry and product level topline reporting, forecasting, root cause analytics to support timely performance insights and decision making. Drive product and platform financials and insights for QBRs.
Industry/Product hierarchy management: Evolve the product hierarchy for internal and external reporting addressing both internal needs and investor expectations.
M&A : Develop playbooks for the product and platform finance teams to conduct financial modeling and evaluation of potential deals, including due diligence and integration. For certain deals, leader may need to step in and support the deal directly.
Spend management: Centralize, standardize and automate headcount and spend processes, such as forecasting, closing, and spend analytics. Simplify and delete steps and processes wherever feasible.
Lead team : Design organizational structure, capacity and capabilities needed. Attract, retain and develop a team of top performing finance professionals.
Requirements
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
Skilled at working across multiple levels, including high level strategy and insights thinking to disciplined processes leadership of complex planning cycles
Solution-driven, innovative, and creative mindset
Zero-defect and principles-first mindset
Ability to be hands-on
Additional Information
Job Requisition ID #
26WD98563
Job Description
Director, Product & Platform Central Finance
Location: San Francisco, CA preferred given business partner location.
Any US/Canada location willing to work West Coast hours considered
Work Arrangement: Hybrid
Position Overview
Reporting to the Head of Corporate and Product Finance, the Director of Product & Platform Central Finance will be responsible for shaping strategy and facilitating the continuous advancement of our product strategic finance function. This Director will partner with the business for key deliverables and projects and will collaborate with our other five product and platform finance teams.
This leader will achieve this through (a) developing a strategy & roadmap for product strategic finance, (b) creating consistent approaches for new/existing deliverables, and (c) create efficiencies by centralizing, standardizing and automating processes that are common across the product and platform finance teams.
The right candidate will demonstrate the ability to partner with C-Level executives and with peer finance leaders supporting the Autodesk product and platform teams. This Director also collaborates deeply with other finance leaders in FP&A, accounting, tax, IR and treasury. This leader attracts, develops and retains world-class corporate finance talent.
Autodesk · San Francisco, CA