Financial Planning & Analysis Manager
Job description
A remote FP&A Manager role at Canonical to lead a regional team in financial forecasting, budgeting, and corporate performance tracking, bridging financial data and executive decision-making.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · AMER, EMEA
- Languages
- English – Professional
What you'll do
- Develop executive reporting dashboards and documents including Board reporting, monthly financial results and other management presentations
- Analyse & Report monthly results, leading indicators and KPIs to support monthly forecasting and annual plan attainment
- Provide commercial analysis, develop growth targets, and evaluate strategic initiatives
- Work with product managers to produce, aggregate, and distribute both market insights and competitive intelligence
- Manage financial models, including budgeting, forecasting, and long range planning
- Drive improvements in data analysis, and determine the appropriate processes, methodologies, and modeling techniques to deliver insights
- Partner with Accounting and Investor Relations to support month end close, flux review processes, and financial reporting
- Drive multi-functional change projects designed to enhance systems, processes, and data accuracy
- Play a key role in preparation of critical public financial documents to support an IPO process, including supporting the production of investor materials and public filings
What we're looking for
- An exceptional academic track record
- Have operated in a high growth, multi currency/geography technology business with a mixed go-to-market motion
- Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities
- Highest ethical standards, integrity, authenticity, credibility, and character
- Curiosity and willingness to work on a wide range of projects
- Proficiency in spreadsheets, financial modeling, and BI tools
- Understanding of core accounting principles
- Professional written and spoken English
- Passionate, thoughtful, and self-motivated
- Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet and exceed commitments
- Ability to travel up to 4 times per year, for company events up to two weeks long
Nice to have
- MBA or equivalent combination of professional certifications and experience
- Previous experience as a subject matter expert in Financial Planning & Analysis
Benefits
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events
- Performance-driven annual bonus
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About Canonical
The company that publishes Ubuntu
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Its platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1400+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles.
Mission
To be the platform for cloud and apps and deliver open source infrastructure and business applications to the enterprise market
Key facts
- 1400+ colleagues
- 2004
- Open source software and operating systems
- 1400+ colleagues in 75+ countries
- Very few office-based roles
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
- Founder-led, profitable, and growing
- Most colleagues have worked from home since inception in 2004
What they value
- Excellence
- Integrity
- Authenticity
- Credibility
- Curiosity
- Diversity