Head of Global Spend

** This role is at Canva (not for Hatch)**

Hatch is supporting Canva to find a great Head of Global Spend to join their Finance and Accounting team. Hatch exists to level the playing field for people as they discover a career that’s right for them. We model this in our hiring process for our partners like Canva.

**About the role at Canva**

Canva’s Commitment and Mission

At Canva, we celebrate diversity. We deeply believe that bringing together diversity of thoughts, perspectives and expression is key to building the best product, team and company. We look for many different skills and abilities, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. So, even if you don’t think you quite meet all of the skills listed or tick all the boxes, we’d still love to hear from you

Our mission at Canva is to empower the world to design and since launching in 2013, we have grown exponentially, amassing over 110+ million monthly active users across 190 different countries and a team of over 3,400 peopleand the best bit is that we’ve only achieved 1% of what we know we’re capable of.

Join us and design your future.

**About the group/team**

Finance’s Mission is to be a world-class team recognised and commended by its peers and stakeholders. The team is well respected and embedded within Canva, often sought for its opinions and inputs into company-wide goals. We are the gatekeepers of the company's Financial growth goals and performance, supporting teams to achieve their goals through scaling and evolving our various operational processes and making sure the company meets its various external compliance requirements.

The Accounting team owns “what the numbers are” at Canva, ensuring that we provide accurate, consistent, and reliable financial information to both our internal teams, our board, and investors. We are at the core of the Finance team, with all other teams (FP&A, Strategy, Tax, etc) relying on the Financial information we produce. The Accounting team also owns the finance operating cycles of Procure to Pay, Quote to Cash, Treasury, and Payroll - critical business-facing operations that support our Groups to achieve their goals.

**About the role/specialty**

The role of the Head of Global Spend is a highly visible and impactful role. As Canva continues to grow globally, so do the size and complexity of our Procure to Pay operations and our associated compliance requirements.

Based in the Sydney head office, the role will be responsible for overseeing our procure-to-pay operating cycles, determining and driving the strategy of how they continue to scale and transform globally as we continue to grow existing locations, add in new locations and work closely as part of Finance leadership to solve our most complex cross-functional challenges in this space. They will be responsible for delivering on a number of key priorities and goals.

The role will work closely with other teams within Finance including FP&A, Tax, and cross-functionally with other Groups such as the People Group, Legal, IT, and the wider business.

The role will be a coach and a leader to a number of team members who are also leading teams themselves, and also beresponsible for continuing to build out the high-performing team.

**Seniority**

Mid Level - A role for someone with some well-developed knowledge and skills they can bring to the role and team. Typically within 2-5 years of experience.

**Responsibilities**
- Development of Finance Strategy - Recommend improvements to optimize and improve financial performance and development of strategic long-term plans
- Process Management and Ongoing Improvement - Manage and improve organizational processes to minimize complexities and increase productivity
- Financial Modeling - Analyze data to create financial models that support planning and projections

**Strengths**
- Numerical problem solving - Works with numerical information and performs mathematical calculations to solve problems
- Attention to detail - Accurately identifies and rectifies discrepancies or errors that exists in information and deliverables
- Critical thinking - Identifies and synthesizes patterns and trends amongst various sources of information to reach a meaningful conclusion, perspective or insight

Hatch exists to level the playing field for people as they discover a career that's right for them. We model this in our hiring process for our partners like Canva.

We do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation, cultural identity, disability, age, or any other non-merit factors. To put it simply, Hatch is for everyone.

**Salary**: $60,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- Day shift