Senior Manager, Corporate FP&A

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design

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About the team

FP&A is a force multiplier, accelerating Canva’s journey on its 2-step plan! Step One – to become one of the world’s most valuable companies; and Step Two –to do the most good we can!

Working closely with Business Leaders across the entire company, we bring our analytical mindset and financial expertise to the table - enabling strategic decision making that drives topline growth, plotting the path from goals to execution through financial planning, driving financial rigor and prudent investment, delivering key insights that lead to meaningful action, and increasing the efficiency of our operations.

About the role

FP&A is on a journey to deliver a step-change in financial sophistication and rigour that will drive Canva’s growth! Empowering our business leaders by connecting strategy, goals, planning, and execution we act as trusted business partners whose perspectives are valued and sought after.

Seeing the big picture across the company, Corporate FP&A brings cohesion, clarity and guidance to the rest of FP&A, from OPEX target setting and driving the FP&A rhythm, to directing focus of teams to deliver a strong investor narrative. This team has a strategic mindset, exceptional financial and business acumen, and outstanding communication skills that enable it to engage effectively with Founders, Executive leadership, the Board of Directors, CFO, and Investor Relations!

We are looking for a superstar Corporate FP&A Partner to join the team, who will help shepherd our journey as we continue scaling our financial planning process and rigor, while contributing to shape our analysis and forecast into useful, reliable insights to drive executive decision making at the corporate and executive level.

What you'll do

• You will help drive cohesive and integrated financial planning throughout Canva: connecting long range strategy to operational planing and execution. You will own and drive our Long Range Planning process.
• You will partner with across FP&A and business leaders to drive accountability and manage financial performance across revenue and expenditure, implementing planning frameworks, mechanisms, processes, and systems along the way.
• You will deliver improvement and increasing efficiency to our financial close, planning and reforecast cycles, partnering closely with the broader FP&A, Finance team, and Business leaders.
• You will design, build, and implement planning and reporting cadences at the board, executive, and leadership level.
• You will partner with other finance teams across accounting, tax, and treasury to deliver finance team goals.
• You will help bring clarity and cohesion to our growth narrative, investment thesis, in partnership with investor relations, to be communicated with investors and other external parties.
• You will investigate and provide insights to ad hoc requests to executive and leadership level.

What we're looking for

• 9+ years of related experience working in Finance related or quantitative fields.
• Deep FP&A experience within global SaaS companies. Prior GAAP and Corporate FP&A experiences at a US public company is a must have.
• A strategic mindset with ability to link big picture to details with ease.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities that enable you to collaborate effectively with senior business leaders across the Company to achieve desired outcomes.
• A team player who continually pushes the boundary, improving and elevating processes and systems to bring increasing value and efficiency to what we do.
• Strong experience with complex financial modeling. Experience with Anaplan is a plus.
• Thrive in bringing structure to chaos, embracing challenges with high adaptability.

What's in it for you?

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but you'll experience lots of moments of magic, connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva, too. We also offer a range of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.

Here's a taste of what's on offer:

• Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too
• Health benefits plans to support you and your wellbeing
• 401(k) retirement plan with company contribution
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
• An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more
• Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and supports you personally

Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.

Other stuff to know

At Canva we value fairness, and we strive to provide competitive, market-informed compensation whilst ensuring internal equity within the team in each region. We make hiring decisions based on your skills, experience and our overall assessment of what we observed and learnt in the hiring process. The target salary range for this position is $181,000 - $237,000. When calculating offers, we make salary decisions based on market data and candidates' skills and experience.

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you don’t feel like your skills quite match what’s listed above - we still want to hear from you!

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.