Cloud Hosting Finance Analyst (AI)

Location: Based in Sydney, Australia; hybrid working with remote flexibility and regular in-person collaboration on the Sydney campus.

Company

Canva is a design technology company building a platform used by hundreds of millions of users, with infrastructure and AI investments supporting its products.

What you will do

• Reconcile centralized cloud hosting vendor bill line items so AI and non-AI FP&A partners can use reliable data for strategic analysis.
• Own R&D and AI/non-AI reclassification methodologies in the Anaplan hosting model, partnering with Accounting and technical accounting on audit readiness.
• Manage the monthly close, quarterly Outlooks, annual AOP, accruals, invoice validation, billing console reconciliations, reclasses, Anaplan actuals, and variance commentary for administrative hosting.
• Build and maintain queries and dashboards for Finance Business Partners, Procurement, and Group Leads, including service movement and workload cost analysis.
• Partner with FinOps and Finance Data on tagging, mapping, vendor onboarding, and anomaly detection, including providers such as Anthropic, OpenAI, FAL, and G-Core.
• Prepare cloud hosting renewal and negotiation models covering commitment sizing, break-even analysis, realized-benefit tracking, and chargeback pilot modelling.

Requirements

• Strong data proficiency and daily experience with a BI tool such as Mode, Looker, Omni, or similar.
• Strong modelling skills, especially driver-based modelling for cloud hosting spend.
• Hands-on experience with large transactional datasets, ideally cloud cost or billing data such as CUR or FinOps tooling.
• Working knowledge of AWS or GCP billing, including Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Capacity Blocks, and Committed Use Discounts.
• Experience in FP&A or a similar function, including monthly close, quarterly forecasting, variance analysis, and planning cycles.
• Fluent use of AI tools for model building and daily analytical work.
• Clear written communication and attention to detail across invoices, accruals, reclasses, and reconciliations.

Nice to have

• Experience with Anaplan or another enterprise planning tool such as Adaptive, Pigment, or Oracle EPM.
• Exposure to FinOps practices and tooling, including ProsperOps, Vantage, or native cloud cost tools.
• Experience with chargeback or showback model design.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid, virtual, and in-person work options depending on team needs.
• Equity packages.
• Inclusive parental leave supporting all parent carers.
• Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance for wellbeing, social connection, office setup, and related needs.
• Flexible leave options and virtual interviews.

Hiring process

• Interviews are conducted virtually.
• Applicants are asked to provide their pronouns and identify any reasonable interview adjustments needed.