Senior Manager, Infrastructure Finance

Canva • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

The Senior Manager, Infrastructure Finance owns the cross-functional Finance view of Canva’s infrastructure commitments and capacity, including what the company has committed to, how quickly capacity is being used, where commitments can be flexed down, and the effects on margin and free cash flow. The role partners with hosting and Product & GenAI finance teams and works with Accounting on the P&L treatment of shortfalls and prepayments. It provides the CFO and business partners with analysis to support commitment, usage, and flexibility decisions.

The position builds and maintains commitment tracking and financial models, converts AI Platform and FinOps utilisation data into a Finance-ready capacity view, and maintains a reconciled savings baseline. It prepares scenario analysis for commitment and renewal decisions, partners on forecasts and vendor onboarding, and uses AI tools in daily analytical work. The role is part of FP&A and Tech & Product Finance, which supports strategic decision-making and oversees the economics of infrastructure, cloud, compute, GPU, and AI investments.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience in strategic finance, infrastructure finance, or cloud finance, with expertise in commitment and capacity questions.
• Experience operating in FP&A or a similar function, with familiarity with monthly close, quarterly forecasting, and planning cycles.
• Strong financial modelling skills, especially for take-or-pay or committed contracts, ramps, and break-even analysis.
• Working knowledge of cloud and GPU economics, including Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Capacity Blocks, Committed Use Discounts, and neocloud contracts.
• Strong data proficiency and daily comfort with a BI tool such as Mode, Looker, Omni, or similar.
• Ability to challenge senior engineering and procurement stakeholders with data and communicate analysis to executives and the CFO.
• Fluent use of AI tools for model building and daily analytical work.
• Ability to interpret commitment terms, utilisation data, and financial trade-offs and explain them clearly to non-finance leaders.

Nice To Haves

• Accounting literacy regarding prepayments and shortfall recognition.
• Experience with Anaplan or another enterprise planning tool.
• Exposure to FinOps practices and tooling, or experience at a hyperscale or AI-heavy company.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the commitment tracker and supporting models, including the effects of ramps, shortfalls, rollovers, and prepayments on free cash flow.
• Turn utilisation and usage data from AI Platform and FinOps into a Finance-ready capacity view covering GPU and non-GPU capacity.
• Own the single reconciled savings baseline used by Platform, Gen AI, and Finance.
• Work with Accounting and technical accounting on the recognition of shortfalls and prepayments and their P&L treatment.
• Prepare and present models and scenario analysis for commitment and renewal discussions, including commit sizing, break-even analysis, and realised-benefit tracking.
• Partner with hosting and Product & GenAI finance teams to incorporate capacity and commitment assumptions into forecasts and BvA.
• Partner with Procurement, FinOps, and Platform on vendor onboarding, contract terms, and flex-down dates as providers are added.
• Use AI tools in daily work to build models and keep analysis current.
• Challenge demand forecasts and senior engineering and procurement stakeholders using evidence and data, and communicate trade-offs to executives and the CFO.

Benefits

• Equity packages.
• Health benefits plans.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company contribution.
• Inclusive parental leave policy supporting parents and carers.
• Annual Vibe & Thrive allowance for wellbeing, social connection, office setup, and more.
• Flexible leave options.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed