Senior Program Manager, M&A Finance

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +7 more states.

📋 Description

• Oversee financial workstreams throughout the complete M&A lifecycle, encompassing due diligence, deal planning, readiness for closure, Day 1 execution, and post-closure integration.

• Collaborate with finance sub-functions and cross-functional M&A partners to evaluate risks and opportunities, back transaction recommendations, and facilitate execution planning.

• Direct finance diligence efforts, which include evaluating historical and forecasted financial performance, operating metrics, cash flow, working capital, and critical transaction assumptions.

• Assess transaction documents and agreements to offer financial insights on deal structure, financial risks, and essential provisions.

• Consolidate diligence outcomes, financial risks, and integration factors into concise recommendations and materials ready for leadership decision-making.

• Examine and negotiate transaction and closing aspects, such as minimum cash requirements, net working capital, funds flow, purchase price adjustments, escrows, holdbacks, and related closing processes.

• Organize pre-closure planning across key finance functions to ensure Day 1 readiness and operational continuity.

• Formulate and implement finance integration strategies, including governance, milestone tracking, executive updates, risk management, issue resolution, and decision-making frameworks.

• Collaborate with finance teams from acquired companies and Autodesk stakeholders to transition processes, systems, controls, vendors, bank accounts, and reporting into Autodesk’s operational framework.

• Assist in closing and post-closure execution tasks, including seller deliverables, finance approvals, onboarding and transition planning, and transaction-related settlements.

• Monitor integration advancement, critical dependencies, and obstacles in relation to transaction goals, escalating issues and ensuring timely resolutions.

• Discover opportunities to enhance, standardize, and scale M&A finance processes, tools, templates, and governance across a matrixed structure.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related discipline.

• 9 or more years of pertinent experience in M&A finance, transaction advisory, strategic finance, corporate finance, FP&A, and/or finance integration.

• Proven experience in supporting transactions through financial diligence, modeling, closing, and post-closure integration.

• Strong financial modeling, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.

• Experience leading cross-functional projects involving multiple stakeholders, workstreams, and deadlines concurrently.

• Comprehensive understanding of end-to-end finance processes, including Record-to-Report, Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay, FP&A, Treasury, Payroll, and Tax.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare materials for senior leaders and executive stakeholders.

• Demonstrated capacity to foster alignment, manage uncertainty, ensure accountability, and achieve results in a matrixed organization.

• Strong program and project management capabilities, encompassing planning, milestone tracking, risk management, and issue resolution.

• High level of business judgment, meticulous attention to detail, and ownership mentality.

• MBA, CPA, or other advanced finance or accounting qualifications preferred.

• Experience in the technology or SaaS sector is preferred.

• Experience supporting software, cloud, or subscription-based business models is preferred.

• Familiarity with valuation concepts and transaction metrics is preferred.

• Experience aiding finance integration in acquisitions, divestitures, or complex business transformations is preferred.

• Experience with enterprise finance systems and reporting tools is preferred.

• A continuous improvement mindset, with experience in enhancing finance processes, governance, and operational models is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual cash bonuses may be included.

• Stock grants may be included.

• Comprehensive benefits package.

• Health and financial benefits.

• Time away benefits.

• Everyday wellness benefits.

• In-person onboarding and/or in-person ID verification may be required.