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Position Overview
Join Autodesk’s Growth Experience Technology (GET) finance team and help shape how we evaluate and manage investments in the technology that enables the COO organization and supports Go-to-Market functions across Autodesk.
In this highly visible role, you will partner with Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Product, and business leaders to guide software-capitalization decisions, strengthen investment forecasting, and improve financial transparency. Your work will help leaders understand technology spend, anticipate financial risks, and make informed decisions across a broad portfolio of growth-enabling platforms and capabilities.
This role combines financial ownership, cross-functional partnership, and process improvement. You will lead recurring planning and close activities while helping scale the financial processes and controls that support GET’s growing impact across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Lead forecasting, reporting, and amortization modeling for GET’s portfolio of capitalized software investments, providing clear visibility into spend, timing, and financial impact.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, Finance, Accounting, and Go-to-Market leaders across the COO organization to assess project scope, delivery timelines, capitalization eligibility, and alignment with business priorities.
- Serve as a trusted finance partner to GET leadership by translating complex project and financial data into clear insights, recommendations, and investment considerations.
- Own the financial processes and controls supporting software capitalization, including project assessments, cost validation, documentation, and audit readiness.
- Lead key month-end and quarter-end activities, including accruals, reconciliations, and depreciation and amortization reviews, while proactively identifying and resolving risks.
- Develop scalable financial models, dashboards, and reporting that improve transparency, forecast accuracy, and decision-making across the GET portfolio.
- Identify opportunities to simplify processes, automate reporting, strengthen controls, and scale finance support as GET’s technology portfolio evolves.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field
- 7+ years of experience in FP&A, accounting, finance business partnership, or a related finance role
- Experience with software capitalization, Internally Developed Software, capitalized labor, depreciation/amortization, project accounting, or comparable capitalized technology spend
- Strong understanding of forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, month-end close, accruals, reconciliations, and financial controls
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills, with the ability to build repeatable reporting and translate analysis into actionable insights
- Strong communication and partnership skills, with the ability to work effectively across Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Product, Procurement, and business teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in technology, software, SaaS, engineering, or product development environments
- Knowledge of internal-use software capitalization concepts, software development life cycles, capitalization documentation, and amortization timing
- Experience with ERP, planning, reporting, or visualization tools such as SAP, Anaplan, Adaptive Planning, Airtable, Power BI, or similar systems
- Process improvement mindset, enable or support with AI, with experience standardizing reporting, strengthening controls, improving forecast accuracy, or scaling finance operations
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About Autodesk
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Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For Canada based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $95,000 and $139,700. 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.Belonging
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