Senior Manager, Business Analytics

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

Job Requisition ID #

26WD101956

Help reimagine how Finance plans, forecasts, and sets quotas.

Planning, forecasting, and quota setting shape how teams make decisions and direct the business. We’re rethinking these processes from the ground up, combining deep business understanding with data, AI, and new ways of building software.

As a Senior Manager, Business Analytics on the COO Finance Business Analytics team, you’ll work with Finance and Sales leaders to understand how these processes work today, identify what would make them better, and help build the tools and processes to make that future real.

This is a senior individual contributor role, with leadership expected through subject matter expertise, project ownership, and stakeholder influence.

This is a hands‑on role. You’ll move between conversations with business partners, detailed analysis, process design, and building prototypes and lightweight tools. You won’t stop at documenting requirements and handing them off: you’ll use data, code, and AI assisted development tools to test ideas, solve practical problems, and help turn promising concepts into solutions people can use.

What you’ll do

• 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.

What you’ll bring

• Experience improving complex business processes through consulting, business analysis, finance transformation, business operations, or systems implementation, ideally with hands‑on involvement in implementing solutions.
• Strong curiosity about how businesses operate and the ability to connect detailed process knowledge to larger business goals.
• A careful, structured approach to analysis, with an eye for inconsistencies, dependencies, exceptions, and details that could affect the result.
• Clear communication skills with both senior leaders and technical partners, adapting the level of detail to the audience.
• Hands‑on experience building or configuring something useful, such as an analysis, prototype, application, automation, or internal tool.
• Working knowledge of one or more tools or technologies such as SQL, Python, low code platforms, or automation tools. You should be comfortable experimenting, testing, and improving what you build.
• Interest in using AI assisted coding tools to move from an idea to a working prototype, and the judgment to validate the output and involve technical partners when needed.
• Comfort working through ambiguity, asking good questions, and bringing structure to problems that don’t come with a ready‑made solution.
• Ability to move quickly in a fast‑paced, evolving environment. Get up to speed on unfamiliar business processes, identify the questions and decisions that matter, and keep work moving while maintaining rigor and attention to detail.

Minimum Requirements

• 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.

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About Autodesk

Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.

We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – it’s at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world.

When you’re an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Benefits

From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/

Salary transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $132,000 and $235,950. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

Belonging

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In-Person Onboarding and Identity Verification

This role may require in-person onboarding and/or in-person ID verification.