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About the Role

The M&A Finance team plays a key role in shaping Autodesk's inorganic growth and strategic evolution. This role will partner across multiple finance and cross-functional teams to assess transactions, support decision-making, and execute finance workstreams for acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead finance workstreams across the full M&A lifecycle, including diligence, deal planning, close readiness, Day 1 execution, and post-close integration.
• Partner with finance sub-functions and cross-functional M&A stakeholders to assess risks and opportunities, support transaction recommendations, and drive execution planning.
• Lead finance diligence activities, including analysis of historical and projected financial performance, operating metrics, cash flow, working capital, and key transaction assumptions.
• Review transaction materials and agreements to provide finance input on deal structure, financial risks, and key provisions.
• Synthesize diligence findings, financial risks, and integration considerations into clear recommendations and decision-ready materials for leadership.
• Analyze and negotiate key transaction and closing considerations, including minimum cash requirements, net working capital, funds flow, purchase price adjustments, escrows, holdbacks, and related closing mechanics.
• Coordinate pre-close planning across core finance functions to support Day 1 readiness and continuity of operations.
• Develop and execute finance integration plans, including governance, milestone tracking, executive updates, risk management, issue resolution, and decision-making processes.
• Partner with acquired company finance teams and Autodesk stakeholders to transition processes, systems, controls, vendors, bank accounts, and reporting into Autodesk’s operating model.
• Support closing and post-close execution activities, including review of seller deliverables, finance approvals, onboarding and transition planning, and transaction-related settlements.
• Track integration progress, critical dependencies, and blockers against transaction objectives, escalating issues and driving timely resolution.
• Identify opportunities to improve, standardize, and scale M&A finance processes, tools, templates, and governance, while building strong relationships and influencing effectively across a matrixed organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
• 9+ years of relevant experience in M&A finance, transaction advisory, strategic finance, corporate finance, FP&A, and/or finance integration.
• Demonstrated experience supporting transactions through financial diligence, modeling, close, and post-close integration.
• Strong financial modeling, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex information into clear recommendations.
• Experience leading across cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, workstreams, and deadlines simultaneously.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end finance processes, including Record-to-Report, Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay, FP&A, Treasury, Payroll, and Tax.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing materials for senior leaders and executive stakeholders.
• Proven ability to drive alignment, manage ambiguity, drive accountability, and deliver results in a matrixed organization.
• Strong program and project management skills, including planning, milestone tracking, risk management, and issue resolution.
• High degree of business judgment, attention to detail, and ownership.

Skills

• Financial modeling
• Analytical skills
• Problem-solving
• Cross-functional leadership
• End-to-end finance processes
• Record-to-Report
• Order-to-Cash
• Procure-to-Pay
• FP&A
• Treasury
• Payroll
• Tax
• Written communication
• Verbal communication
• Stakeholder management
• Ambiguity management
• Accountability
• Results delivery
• Program management
• Project management
• Risk management
• Issue resolution
• Business judgment
• Attention to detail
• Ownership
• M&A finance
• Transaction advisory
• Strategic finance
• Corporate finance
• Finance integration
• Valuation concepts
• Synergy analysis
• Cash flow assessment
• Deal performance indicators
• Finance process enhancement
• Finance governance
• Finance operating models

Location

• US

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior
• 9+ years

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field
• MBA
• CPA

Salary/Compensations

• $162,000 - $221,000

Benefits

• Annual cash bonuses
• Stock grants
• Comprehensive benefits package

About the Company

• 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.
• 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.

Equal 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.