Cloud Hosting Finance Analyst

About the role

Canva is looking for a Cloud Hosting Finance Analyst based in Sydney, working in a hybrid arrangement. The role sits in Tech & Product Finance, which owns the economics of Canva's cloud, compute, GPU and AI infrastructure. Hosting is the biggest cost lever, and the role combines finance and data analysis to reconcile hosting spend, forecast it accurately and optimise it, working with Accounting, technical accounting, FinOps and Finance Business Partners.

Key responsibilities

• Reconcile hosting data across all centralised cloud vendor bill line items.
• Own the R&D reclass (COGS vs non-COGS) and free reclass (AI vs non-AI) methodologies in the Anaplan hosting model, partnering with Accounting and technical accounting on audit readiness.
• Own the finance rhythm for admin hosting: monthly close, quarterly Outlooks, annual AOP, ProsperOps accruals and tracking, AWS and GCP invoice validation, monthly billing console reconciliations, reclasses, Anaplan actuals and BvA commentary.
• Build and maintain queries and dashboards answering Finance Business Partners, Procurement and Group Leads' questions about service movements and new workload costs.
• Partner with FinOps and Finance Data on tagging, mapping, vendor onboarding and anomaly detection.
• Prepare models and scenario analysis for cloud hosting vendor renewals and negotiations, including commit sizing, break-even analysis and realised-benefit tracking.
• Use AI tools fluently and help design and run chargeback pilot modelling.

Required profile

• Experience in an FP&A function or similar, comfortable with monthly close, quarterly forecasting and planning cycles.
• Strong data proficiency and daily comfort with a BI tool (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 (CUR, FinOps tooling).
• Fluent use of AI tools for model building and daily analysis.
• Clear written communication and attention to detail on invoices, accruals, reclasses and reconciliations.

Required skills

• Working knowledge of AWS or GCP billing, including Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Capacity Blocks and Committed Use Discounts.
• Experience with Anaplan (strongly preferred) or another enterprise planning tool (Adaptive, Pigment, Oracle EPM) is a plus.
• Exposure to FinOps practices and tooling (ProsperOps, Vantage) or chargeback/showback model design is a bonus.

What we offer

• Equity packages.
• Inclusive parental leave policy.
• An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance.
• Flexible leave options.
• Virtual, hybrid and in-person work options.