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Position Overview

Autodesk is looking for a trusted finance business partner to join our EMEA Sales Finance team. This person reports directly to the Finance Director of EMEA Territory Sales but is the primary business partner to the Senior Director of Inside Sales. The candidate must demonstrate independence, excellence and integrity in decision making and business judgment.  A strong knowledge of information systems, financial planning, accounting, strategic planning, risk assessment and business development is required, preferably in a software company. The right candidate for this role will demonstrate strong collaboration skills, financial aptitude, excellent business intuition, and the capability to work at multiple levels, including high level strategy and day-to-day financial details.

This finance business partner will have frequent interactions and collaborate with the local sales teams, cross-functional deal teams and finance teams and enable optimal informed business decisions through strong, effective analysis and key business insights.

Responsibilities

• Actively participate to the annual business planning cycle, allocating targets among individual portfolios and territories across all mature markets in EMEA Mature
• Support individual target sheet definition and review and approve monthly commission attainments for the sales team
• Develop, maintain and monitor the reporting process on daily, weekly and quarterly billings performance
• Build Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) for sales and finance senior management, present a EOQ finance deck to review performance and metrics
• Collaborate with the broader sales finance community to facilitate and drive the evolution of our reporting and analysis tools, to keep up with the evolution of business requirements
• Drive efficient, standardized systems and processes, leverage worldwide best practices
• Manage and maintain the weekly subscriptions and billings forecast process for Vertical Territory Sales
• Support sales and their pipeline management through Salesforce.com
• Perform regular analysis of portfolios or territories, including different trends by industry or customer segment
• Manage the planning and forecast process for Opex, supported by the Spend Analyst team
• Establish relationships with other groups such as Sales Ops deal desk, Legal, Revenue Accounting, Tax, etc. to support the Sales Teams
• Reinforce internal controls with particular emphasis on the training and communication of revenue recognition policies and government engagement policy
• Act as fiduciary in the best interest of the company, free of conflicts of interest and with objectivity, integrity, and truthfulness
• Monitor effectiveness of Finance policies, practices and processes to determine efficiency and effectiveness. Recommend improvements to achieve and deliver improved results. Implement and follow standards and policies as defined by corporate and division senior management; escalates exceptions or questionable practices to direct manager or senior management staff
• May lead or sponsor cross industry or cross geography projects within Finance especially projects related to streamlining and/or improving processes and systems

Minimum requirements

• Bachelor degree (finance, business or accounting)
• CPA or MBA is desired but not required
• Minimum of 8 years of progressively responsible business & finance experience
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience providing financial, operational, and administrative support to high tech sales organizations
• Articulate and concise with strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Influencing skills at various levels (staff, peers, superiors) are very important
• Ability to stay abreast of important details as well as distill knowledge into an easily communicable message is critical
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage tight deadlines
• Ambitious and ability to learn quickly
• Strong team player and leadership potential
• Ability to work on cross-functional teams across the globe
• Strong skills in Microsoft Excel
• Anaplan, Salesforce and Power BI experience a plus

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About Autodesk

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