Senior Financial Analyst, Corporate FP&A

Overview

Job Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Where And How You Can Work

Our flagship office is in Sydney, Australia, but we've made our way from down under, to a hub in San Francisco, which is now home to our US operations. We offer flexibility in how and where you work. We trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.

About The Team

FP&A is on a journey to deliver a step-change in financial sophistication and rigor to support Canva’s continued growth. By connecting strategy, goals, planning and execution, we act as trusted business partners whose perspectives are valued and sought after.

Corporate FP&A brings cohesion, clarity and guidance to the rest of FP&A, from leading P&L performance review and driving the FP&A rhythm, to directing focus of teams to deliver a strong investor narrative. With a strategic mindset, deep financial and business acumen, and clear communication, the team partners closely with founders, executive leadership, the Board, the CFO, and Investor Relations to help guide Canva’s growth.

About

The Role

We’re looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to own the FP&A close & reporting engine, contribute to the financial forecasting workstream, and build executive, Board and shareholder materials. You’ll have line of sight across the full corporate story and work closely with all of FP&A, Finance Systems, Accounting, and Finance Leads.

We’re looking for someone who is motivated by using data to help leaders make better decisions. You enjoy owning work end-to-end, take pride in producing high quality outputs, and are energized by turning complexity into clarity. You’re excited by the chance to grow from executing analysis to influencing how the business plans, measures success, and tells its story.

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

• Owning end-to-end corporate FP&A reporting work streams and cycles, from data gathering through to insights and recommendations.

• You’ll own and deliver core financial reporting, forecasting, and analysis that helps leaders understand performance and key business drivers.

• Continuously improve our corporate FP&A reporting processes and tools lifting our reporting and planning capability.

• Supporting the preparation of materials for senior leadership and the board, taking on first drafts of selected analyses, visuals and commentary, into clear and compelling stories.

• You’ll partner closely with FP&A, Finance, and business teams to align insights, forecasts, and priorities, while proactively identifying risks and opportunities.

You're probably a match if you

• Have experience in FP&A, consulting, investment banking, or a rotational finance program in corporate organisations, and are excited to deepen your impact in a high growth environment

• Bring strong financial and analytical foundations, with the ability to explain P&L movements and connect results to underlying business drivers.

• Have a structured, improvement-oriented mindset, focused on making recurring work more scalable, reliable, and efficient.

• Possess clear written and verbal communication skills, with an instinct for turning data into insights that resonate with senior stakeholders.

• Have a solid technical instincts and ownership mentality, with confidence in Excel and large datasets (SQL and Anaplan experience a plus) and ambition to grow your impact as Canva scales.

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…