Senior Manager, AI-Driven Finance Analytics & Planning

Autodesk, Inc; California; On-site; USD 132,000 - 236,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk, Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager, Business Analytics in California to lead analytics across Finance planning, forecasting, and quota setting.

You’ll partner with Finance and Sales leaders to understand current processes, identify improvements, and build tools and lightweight applications with data and AI assisted development. The role is a senior individual contributor with subject matter expertise, driving prototypes through to scalable solutions while collaborating with technical

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in business, finance, economics, engineering, analytics, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in analytical fields such as management consulting, business analysis, finance transformation, strategic finance, FP&A, BizOps, business systems, or a related field.
• Experience analyzing and redesigning complex, cross-functional business processes, including mapping process steps, roles, decision rights, business rules, inputs and outputs, and exceptions.
• Experience working with Finance, Sales, or GTM teams on planning, forecasting, quota setting, or performance management.
• Demonstrated ability to structure ambiguous problems, conduct detailed analysis, and communicate conclusions and recommendations to both senior business leaders and technical partners.
• Hands-on experience building, configuring, or automating a practical solution, such as a prototype, internal tool, analysis, or process automation.
• Working knowledge of SQL, Python, low-code platforms, or similar tools, with the ability to use them to explore data and build or test solutions.

Responsibilities

• Get to the heart of how the business works. Partner with Finance, Sales, and other teams to understand their goals, decisions, constraints, and pain points across planning, forecasting, and quota setting.
• Rethink how these processes work. Identify where they can be clearer, faster, more connected, or easier to adapt as the business changes.
• Make complex processes understandable. Map how decisions, data, business rules, and handoffs fit together—from building a forecast to setting quotas, allocating them across teams, and connecting them across business areas.
• Turn business needs into practical solutions. Define the data, logic, and user needs required to support a better way of working.
• Build and test ideas yourself. Use AI assisted coding tools, data, and automation to create prototypes, analyses, and lightweight applications that help teams explore and solve problems.
• Put solutions through their paces. Test them with real scenarios, exceptions, and edge cases, then use feedback to improve them.
• Work with technical partners to scale what works. Collaborate on taking successful prototypes into reliable, secure, and maintainable solutions.
• Bring people along. Explain complex ideas clearly, help stakeholders make decisions, and support teams as new approaches take shape.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication

Problem solving

Adaptability

Leadership (senior IC)

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in business, finance, economics, engineering, analytics, or related field

Tools

SQL

Python

Low-code platforms

Automation tools

Job description

Autodesk, Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager, Business Analytics in California to lead analytics across Finance planning, forecasting, and quota setting.

You’ll partner with Finance and Sales leaders to understand current processes, identify improvements, and build tools and lightweight applications with data and AI assisted development. The role is a senior individual contributor with subject matter expertise, driving prototypes through to scalable solutions while collaborating with technical