Financial Planning & Analysis Manager at Canonical

What your day will look like:

• Provide executive reporting dashboards and documents including Board, close and other management presentations
• Analyse 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, and determine the appropriate processes, methodologies, and modelling techniques to produce low variance budget to actual
• Partner with Accounting and IR to support month end close, flux review processes, and financial reporting
• Play a key role in preparation of critical public financial documents to support the IPO process, including supporting the production of investor materials and public filings
• Guide the annual FP&A activity calendar to provide decision support the executive team
• Control costs via methodical reviews of department spend, procurement strategies, and business wide process efficiency

What we are looking for in you:

• Demonstrable progressive work experience within Finance/FP&A functions
• Have operated in a high growth, multi currency/geography technology business with a mixed go-to-market motion
• Experience with public company quarterly close and reporting cadence, and coordination with IR
• MBA or equivalent combination of professional certifications and experience
• Highest ethical standards, integrity, authenticity, credibility, and character