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Salary: USD 146,000 - 215,000 / annual
Canva is seeking a Cloud Hosting Finance Analyst to join its FP&A team in San Francisco. This role sits at the intersection of finance and data analytics, focused on managing and optimizing Canva's cloud hosting spend—the single largest cost lever in the company's infrastructure budget.
You will own the financial data layer for hosting costs across AWS, GCP and other cloud vendors, ensuring accuracy and auditability across all centralized billing. Your responsibilities include:
- Reconciling hosting data across cloud vendor bills and CUR (Cost and Usage Reports) to provide FP&A partners with trusted, sound data for strategic analysis
- Owning R&D and free reclassification (COGS vs non-COGS, AI vs non-AI) methodologies within Anaplan, working with Accounting and technical accounting teams on audit readiness
- Managing the finance rhythm for hosting: monthly close, quarterly outlooks, annual AOP, including ProsperOps accruals, AWS/GCP invoice validation, and Anaplan reconciliations
- Building and maintaining BI dashboards and queries (Mode, Looker, Omni or similar) to answer questions from FBPs, Procurement, and Group Leads about service movements and workload costs
- Partnering with FinOps and Finance Data teams on tagging, vendor mapping, anomaly detection, and bringing new vendors into models
- Preparing models and scenario analysis for cloud hosting vendor negotiations, including commit sizing, break-even analysis, and benefit tracking
- Supporting chargeback pilot design and hands-on modeling as Canva moves toward distributed cost accountability
- Using AI tools fluently in daily analytical work to increase leverage and efficiency
Canva is scaling rapidly as an AI-native company, making cloud and infrastructure costs increasingly strategic and fast-moving. This role requires someone who is equally comfortable with data and finance, can turn messy billing data into actionable insights, and thrives in a dynamic environment where new workloads and negotiation cycles emerge frequently.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Strong data proficiency and daily comfort with BI tools (Mode, Looker, Omni or similar)
- Strong modeling skills, especially driver-based modeling for cloud hosting spend
- Hands-on experience with large transactional datasets, ideally cloud cost or billing data (CUR, FinOps tooling)
- Working knowledge of AWS or GCP billing, including Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Capacity Blocks, and Committed Use Discounts
- Experience operating within an FP&A function or similar, familiar with monthly close, quarterly forecasting cadences, 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
- Experience with Anaplan (strongly preferred) or another enterprise planning tool (Adaptive, Pigment, Oracle EPM) is a plus
- Any exposure to FinOps practices and tooling (ProsperOps, Vantage, native cloud cost tools) or chargeback/showback model design is a bonus
