Canva

Senior FP&A Analyst, Forecasting

Canva

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇦🇺 Australia

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

SQL

About the role

  • In this unique role, you’ll divide your time between day-to-day operations work and strategic project work.
  • One part of your role will be dedicated to day-to-day operations, including ownership topline forecast models, updates and analysis of revenue metrics, drivers and dashboards.
  • You’ll support the creation of robust processes for Topline forecasting, ensuring accuracy and reliability.
  • You’ll be partnering closely with Finance Business Partners and revenue-generating teams to understand KPIs, drivers and strategic initiatives, proving actionable insights to key stakeholders.
  • The other part to your role will be dedicated to strategic project work, supporting with evolving existing and building new operating models as required to assist with evaluating strategic alternatives, new initiatives and tracking group operational metrics.
  • This requires you to lean on your strategic thinking and modelling experience to understand the drivers of the business and learn to provide advice on the best modelling approach to take.
  • Typically, you’ll be working on one large project at any given time, plus ad hoc smaller projects.
  • Building your modelling and strategic thinking to solve unique and complex business problems.
  • Working closely with Finance Business Partners and the revenue generating groups to understand performance metrics, underlying drivers, ongoing strategic initiatives and optimise scenario and operational models.
  • Providing forecasts that feed into profitability analysis, supporting the broader FP&A team with insights and commentary on operational metrics.
  • Identifying potential risks to future growth and revenue early, through monitoring of metrics and key performance indicators.
  • Provide monthly updates for actuals, revising forecasts based on the latest business insights and metrics, including collaborating across the business to ensure our forecast accurately reflects business reality.
  • Learning the nuances of market and industry trends, applying insights to revenue forecasting and SaaS metrics.
  • Collaborating with the broader FP&A and Finance team to elevate financial excellence across Canva.

Requirements

  • You are a strategic thinker with sound commercial acumen.
  • You have a hunger for continuous learning, embracing new challenges with high adaptability.
  • You have experience in strategic corporate finance, private equity/venture capital, investment banking, management consulting or similar environments.
  • You have the ability to analyse multiple dimensions of what drives a business equation and thrive in cross-functional collaboration, synthesising insights to drive impactful financial and operational forecasts.
  • You have the drive to learn operational modelling and understanding of various operational modelling techniques, from architecting to understanding trade offs, you know when and where to apply them maximum impact.
  • You have a keen eye for identifying areas of improvements in existing models, ensuring efficiency and accuracy.
  • You are an Excel modelling wizard and are keen to expand your knowledge of data structures and building intricate models that provide invaluable insights into the business dynamics.
  • You have a knack for data detective work, diving deep into data, seamlessly joining disparate sources to uncover root causes and business drivers, allowing you to decipher downstream impacts, guiding forecast and goals with precision.
  • You thrive in highly collaborative environments and solving problems creatively.
  • You have experience with PowerQuery, PowerBi, DAX and SQL is a plus.
Benefits
  • 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

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Hard skills
financial forecastingoperational modellingdata analysisKPI analysisprofitability analysisrevenue metricsscenario modellingstrategic project managementExcel modellingdata synthesis
Soft skills
strategic thinkingcommercial acumenadaptabilitycross-functional collaborationproblem-solvingcontinuous learningattention to detailcreativityinsight generationrisk identification