Sustainability Analyst

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Where and how you can work

Our flagship campus is in Sydney. We also have a campus in Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. But you have choice in where and how you work. That means if you want to do your thing in the office (if you're near one), at home or a bit of both, it's up to you.

About the role

Reporting to the Climate Lead, you’ll play a supporting role in Canva’s internal and external global climate and sustainability reporting, across all relevant jurisdictions.

In this role, you’ll work across diverse data-related tasks, from number crunching to providing actionable insights that help reduce Canva’s environmental impact. You’ll be key in collecting, analysing, and interpreting data to support compliance requirements and monitoring Canva’s progress toward its climate goals.

This role offers an opportunity to work closely with the Climate Lead and internal partner teams, build expertise in sustainability reporting frameworks, and make an impact on how Canva tracks and communicates its environmental impact.

What you’d be doing in this role

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve.

At the moment, this role is focused on:

• Supporting the yearly measurement of Canva’s carbon footprint across Scopes 1, 2, and 3, helping to monitor progress toward climate targets.
• Assisting in collecting, organizing, and analyzing sustainability data to support reporting efforts and disclosures aligned with global frameworks (e.g., ISSB, TCFD).
• Gathering and analysing sustainability data, including emissions data, and developing insights to inform strategies for helping Canva reach its net zero goals.
• Owning the creation, maintenance, and evolution of an environmental assets register, providing easily accessible records of all of Canva’s carbon, energy, and other credit and certificate instruments.
• Helping ensure Canva maintains an accurate view of its climate risks, opportunities, and sustainability metrics to drive strategic decisions.
• Collaborating with various teams (Finance, Legal, Real Estate) to collect relevant data and ensure compliance with upcoming sustainability disclosure regimes.
• Contributing to the creation of Canva’s Annual Sustainability Report by supporting the compilation of key figures, targets, and impact data.
• Partnering with Finance and Legal to support the development of an operational roadmap to ensure the systems, processes, and data sources are robust and enable effective assurance procedures.
• Partnering with the FP&A team to integrate sustainability data into business forecasts, providing a holistic view of sustainability across different areas of the business.

You're probably a match if you

• Love diving into data: You enjoy collecting, analyzing, and organizing complex sustainability data to uncover insights that drive impactful decisions. You’re comfortable with tasks like manual number crunching but also see the big picture, turning numbers into actionable strategies for reducing emissions.
• Understand sustainability frameworks: You’re familiar with frameworks like TCFD, ISSB, and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. You’ve got a handle on upcoming climate-related disclosure requirements.
• Are a natural collaborator: Partnering closely with many internal teams such as Sustainability, Finance, and Legal teams and external stakeholders in the achievement of ambitious climate goals excites you. You thrive on teamwork, and you’re always ready to contribute sustainability insights that help influence broader business strategies.
• Understand sustainability assessment processes: You have experience or are excited to work with recognized sustainability assessment processes such as materiality assessments, climate risk and opportunities assessments, and future climate resilience scenario modeling.
• Understand measurement approaches: You understand the benefits and tradeoffs between spend-based and lifecycle-based measurement approaches and can translate sustainability data into financial outcomes, helping stakeholders make informed business decisions.
• Have a passion for sustainability: You care deeply about the environment and are excited to contribute to Canva’s mission to achieve net zero.

About the Sustainability team

Canva Sustainability has a vision of Canva becoming a global leader in sustainability. Sitting within the Finance Group, Canva Sustainability is responsible for the achievement of our ambitious climate objectives inside and outside of company operations.

We are proud of our pioneering commitments including joining Amazon’s The Climate Pledge, the first Australian company to become a participant in Frontier Climate via our climate analytics partners Watershed, and are committed to Doing the most good we can as part of Canva’s 2 Step Plan. We strive to embed sustainability across Canva teams to ensure our products, operations, and activities each have sustainability in mind.

Canva Sustainability’s work not only ensures operational compliance and excellence across external reporting regimes, but extends to having real world impact both inside and outside of Canva, including the millions of trees that have been planted across the globe through our One Print, One Tree program, benefiting communities, ecosystems, and the climate.

Our day-to-day work is highly cross-functional with a number of teams at the company, such as Real Estate, Legal, Canva Print, Procurement, People, Investor Relations, Finance, and Marketing. Our Sustainability credentials were recently recognised in Kantar’s Most Valuable Global Brand Report, driving Canva to a Top 20 result in the Business Technology and Services category.

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
• 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

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.