Head of Finance Operations
Canva
Accounting & Finance, Operations
Sydney, Australia
Posted on Friday, February 24, 2023
<div><b style="font-size:14pt;">Canva’s Commitment and Mission</b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">At Canva, we celebrate diversity. We deeply believe that bringing together diversity of thoughts, perspectives and expression is key to building the best product, team and company. We look for many different skills and abilities, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. So, even if you don’t think you quite meet all of the skills listed or tick all the boxes, we’d still love to hear from you! </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:14.6667px;">Our mission at Canva is to empower the world to design and since launching in 2013, we have grown exponentially, amassing over 110+ million monthly active users across 190 different countries and a team of over 3,400 people… and the best bit is that we’ve only achieved 1% of what we know we’re capable of. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">Join us and design your future. </span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b><span style="font-size:24px;">About the group</span></b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:14.67px;">Finance’s Mission is to be a world class team recognised and commended by its peers and stakeholders. The team is well respected and embedded within Canva, often sought for its opinions and inputs into company wide goals. We are the gatekeepers of the company's Financial growth goals and performance, supporting teams to achieve their goals through scaling and evolving our various operational processes and making sure the company meets its various external compliance requirements.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:14.67px;">The Accounting team owns “what the numbers are” at Canva, ensuring that we provide accurate, consistent and reliable financial information to both our internal teams, our board and investors. We are at the core of the Finance team, with all other teams (FP&A, Strategy, Tax etc) all relying on the Financial information we produce. The Accounting team also owns the finance operating cycles of Procure to Pay, Quote to Cash, Treasury and Payroll - critical business facing operations that support our Groups to achieve their goals.</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b><span style="font-size:24px;">About the role</span></b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:14.67px;">The role of the Head of Finance Operations is a highly visible, broad and impactful leadership role. As Canva continues to grow globally, so does the size and complexity of our Finance operations and global accounting requirements. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:14.67px;">Based in the Sydney head office, the role will be responsible for overseeing our Finance operating cycles and processes, determining and driving the strategy of how they continue to scale and transform globally as we continue to grow existing locations, add in new locations and work closely as part of Finance leadership to solve our most complex cross-functional challenges. They will be responsible for delivering on a number of key priorities and goals.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:14.67px;">The role will work closely with other teams within Finance including FP&A, Tax and cross functionally with other leaders in Groups such as the People Group, Legal, IT, Sales and the wider business. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:14.67px;">The role will be a coach and a leader to a number of team members who are also leading teams themselves, and also be responsible for continuing to build out the high performing team.</span></div>
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