Director, AOS Finance

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Position Overview

One of the adjacencies that Autodesk is expanding into is Operations, by extending our AI-powered clouds into the entire lifecycle of buildings, factories and infrastructure. We have formed a group called Autodesk Operations Solutions (AOS) for that. We are hiring a Director of AOS Finance to help build and grow this business into a significant part of Autodesk’s portfolio. Reporting to the Head of Corporate and Product Finance, the Director for AOS Finance will drive world-class strategic & operational business partnering, financial planning & forecasting, as well as financial insights into the AOS business. The AOS Finance leader works closely with the leader of the AOS team, as well as the AOS leadership team.

The right candidate will demonstrate the ability to partner with C-Level executives on strategic, investment, and operational topics, lead financial analysis for M&A opportunities, provide deep financial insights, “look around the corner”, develop solutions to issues, establish a systematic view of metrics relevant to the business, and use a mix of planning methods help scale the Operations business quickly and effectively. The Director of AOS Finance also collaborates deeply with other finance leaders in FP&A, accounting, tax, and treasury. This leader attracts, develops and retains world-class corporate finance talent.

Responsibilities

• Business partnering. Viewed as a strategic business partner, change agent and member of the AOS leadership team. Provide leadership in the development and implementation of division strategic plans to support the AOS team’s objectives. Key contributor in the development of the organization’s strategic plans and objectives. Participate in the development of the Division 3-5 year Strategic Plan. Influence all key capital and operating investment decisions, trade-offs, resource prioritization, risks, all with a mind-set to support the key strategic goals, drive growth and optimize ROI. This includes proactive support of investment decisions which can range from engineering resource allocation, pricing and packaging, resource prioritization to strategic partnerships, M&A, and budget management. Ensure accountability to financial commitments. Drive quarterly business reviews for each function. Regular presentations to C-Level leaders and their leadership teams on financial performance, opportunities, strategic initiatives, and planning

• Pricing & Packaging. Support decision making on pricing & packaging for the AOS business including COGS and margin analysis, topline impact, accounting treatment, and strategic considerations. Pricing & packaging is expected to cover both subscription and consumption models

• Sales finance support: To the extent that the AOS team has sales capacity directly reporting into the team, the AOS Finance leader will also provide Sales FP&A leadership. This includes management of the forecasting process, compensation plan development, input into quota assignment, quarter end close, transaction support (e.g. pricing approvals), and deal structuring and review

• Drive division-specific metrics, insights and solutions. Develop and evolve financial metrics in line with strategic and operational priorities, e.g. revenue, ARR, product economics, investment ROI, spend, and more. Report on results and metrics to manage the AOS team’s financial performance, identify root causes of issues, forecast issues, and develop solutions. Influence decision making on all critical issues to ensure solutions are being implemented

• Annual planning: Manage the AOS team’s annual financial planning processes across teams and with interlock among the divisions, e.g. sales, marketing and platform engineering. Utilize financial planning methods including ZBB, bow-wave, unit economics and ROI-based investment analysis. Drive both top-down target setting and bottom-up financial planning including monthly and quarterly detail. Identify key planning issues and develop solutions to resolve them. Test robustness of the plan through scenario analyses. Maintain and summarize external views of market, competitors, industry trends, and financial benchmarks to inform planning cycle. Influence all key investment decisions for annual plan

• Forecasting: Quarterly and monthly forecasts for AOS’ revenue, ARR, headcount, expenses and key financial metrics. Identify and report on select weekly metrics to highlight potential issues early. Represent forecast to AOS and finance including key drivers. Proactively highlight issues and solutions. Look “around the corner” based on trends and the forecast data. Conduct scenario analysis to assess opportunities and risks.

• Quarter-end: Use strong and smart processes to close the quarter in best-in-class speed and in alignment with rules and policies.

• Long-range planning: Create a multi-year view of AOS’ financials and key metrics. Use an integrated model that reflects the relationship between revenue and expense. Drive a process that ensures ownership and alignment of the long-range plan by the leadership team. Conduct scenario analyses to assess opportunities and risks

• M&A: Conduct financial modeling and evaluation of potential AOS deals covering build, buy, and partner scenarios and consider ROI and ROCE. Partner with AOS leadership team, corporate development and other finance teams to develop the M&A business case and strategy. Lead the financial due diligence. Advocate for integration plan that maximizes the ROI for the company

• Automation and process excellence: Build out a system enabling business planning and forecasting. Create robust reporting platform enabling self-service to support finance and business partners with key information related to plans, ARR, budgets, spend, headcount, and more. Continuously improve processes for efficiency, insight and foresight

• Unit-level financial insights: Create methodology and implement unit-level economics by product and channel to facilitate strategic decision making

• Board and CEO-Staff communication: Contribute to the Board and CEO-Staff materials for the AOS leadership team analyzing financial results, distilling/synthesizing key trends, assessing current and future business risk, and communicating key messages

• Lead team: Attract, retain and develop a team of top performing finance professionals across multiple geographies, including value-based locations

• Strategic projects: Participate in strategic data analysis, research and modeling for senior company leadership

• Stewardship: Provide guidance to the AOS leadership team regarding current regulatory changes impacting the finance processes and practices. Address improper actions, or questionable practices, immediately to reduce company risk and exposure. Ensure controls are in place to ensure Sarbanes Oxley compliance within client group

Minimum 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 FP&A

• Proven experience in partnering with C-Level executives at small/mid-sized 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

• 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

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, business, accounting, economics; MBA preferred

• Background in management consulting, investment banking, or equity research preferred

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