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CanvaSenior Manager, Infrastructure Finance
Canva is seeking a Senior Manager, Infrastructure Finance for its San Francisco location to join the financial planning and analysis team. This position sits alongside hosting…
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Canva is seeking a Senior Manager, Infrastructure Finance for its San Francisco location to join the financial planning and analysis team. This position sits alongside hosting and Product & GenAI finance groups, providing a unified financial perspective on vendor commitments, capacity utilization, and P&L impacts as AI workloads grow. The ideal candidate is comfortable analyzing contract terms, utilization data, and demand forecasts while collaborating with engineering, procurement, and executive leadership.…
Job Description
Canva is seeking a Senior Manager, Infrastructure Finance for its San Francisco location to join the financial planning and analysis team. This position sits alongside hosting and Product & GenAI finance groups, providing a unified financial perspective on vendor commitments, capacity utilization, and P&L impacts as AI workloads grow.
The ideal candidate is comfortable analyzing contract terms, utilization data, and demand forecasts while collaborating with engineering, procurement, and executive leadership. Responsibilities center on building financial models, tracking commitments, establishing savings baselines, and supporting negotiations.
Canva operates from its Jackson Square campus in San Francisco, which offers a collaborative environment designed for both deep work and team connection.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain commitment trackers and underlying financial models for ramps, shortfalls, rollovers, and free cash flow effects
- Translate AI Platform and FinOps usage data into a unified GPU and non-GPU capacity view for finance
- Establish a single reconciled savings baseline for Platform, Gen AI, and Finance reporting
- Collaborate with Accounting regarding the timing and P&L recognition of shortfalls and prepayments
- Prepare scenario analyses and models to support commitment and renewal negotiations, break-even evaluations, and executive presentations
- Partner with hosting and product finance groups to integrate capacity and commitment assumptions into forecasts and budget-versus-actuals
- Coordinate with Procurement, FinOps, and Platform teams regarding vendor onboarding and contract terms
- Utilize AI tools daily to accelerate model creation and maintain current analysis
Requirements
- Possess at least 8 years of professional experience in strategic finance, infrastructure finance, or cloud finance
- Demonstrate expertise in managing commitment and capacity questions
- Show strong financial modeling abilities, particularly with take-or-pay agreements, committed contracts, and break-even calculations
- Bring working knowledge of cloud and GPU economics including Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, Capacity Blocks, and neocloud contracts
- Exhibit strong data proficiency with daily use of business intelligence tools such as Looker, Mode, or Omni
- Demonstrate executive communication skills for presenting data and insights to senior engineering stakeholders and the CFO
- Use AI tools fluently for analytical work and model building
Qualifications
- Possess accounting literacy related to prepayments and shortfall recognition
- Bring experience using Anaplan or alternative enterprise planning software
- Demonstrate exposure to FinOps practices, tooling, or background at an AI-heavy or hyperscale organization
Core Skills
Benefits
- Equity packages
- Health and wellbeing benefit plans
- 401(k) retirement plan with company contributions
- Inclusive parental leave policy
- Annual Vibe and Thrive allowance for wellbeing, social connection, and office setup
- Flexible leave options
Frequently Asked Questions
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What is the location of this role?
This position is located in San Francisco at Canva's Jackson Square campus.
What salary is offered for the Senior Manager, Infrastructure Finance position?
The target salary range is between $180,000 and $260,000 per year, determined based on candidate experience and market data.
What level of experience is required?
Applicants must have 8 or more years of experience in strategic, infrastructure, or cloud finance with expertise in commitment and capacity matters.
How are interviews conducted?
Interviews for this position are conducted virtually.
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