Chief Financial Strategist, Topline Forecasting and Growth

3 days ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Canva Full time

Are you a strategic finance professional seeking a challenging role that combines operational modelling with top-line forecasting? Canva is hiring a Chief Financial Strategist to join our Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team. This exciting opportunity will see you drive superior outcomes for the company through financial and operational forecasting.

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 of top-line forecast models, day-to-day updates and analysis of revenue metrics, drivers, and dashboards. You'll support the creation of robust processes for top-line forecasting, ensuring accuracy and reliability.

  • Build operational modelling and strategic thinking to solve unique and complex business problems.
  • Work closely with Finance Business Partners and the revenue-generating groups to understand performance metrics, underlying drivers, ongoing strategic initiatives, and optimize scenario and operational models.
  • Provide forecasts that feed into profitability analysis, supporting the broader FP&A team with insights and commentary on operational metrics.
  • Identify potential risks to future growth and revenue early, through monitoring of metrics and key performance indicators.

You'll 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.

Requirements

To succeed in this role, you'll need:

  • Experience in operational modelling and top-line forecasting (within SaaS or tech industry a bonus but not essential).
  • Hunger for continuous learning, embracing new challenges with high adaptability, and drive to learn and understanding of various operational modelling techniques.
  • Experience in strategic corporate finance, private equity/venture capital, investment banking, management consulting, or similar environments.
  • Love modelling in Excel and keen to expand your knowledge of data structures and building intricate models that provide invaluable insights into the business dynamics.
  • Strategic thinker and commercial acumen.
  • Experience analysing multiple dimensions of what drives a business equation and thrive in cross-functional collaboration, synthesizing insights to drive impactful financial and operational forecasts.
  • 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.

We estimate the salary for this role to be around $120,000 - $150,000 per annum, depending on experience and qualifications.

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