Senior Manager, Infrastructure Finance

Canva • San Francisco, CA

3h • $180,000 - $260,000

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Infrastructure Finance owns Canva’s cross-functional Finance view of 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 and works with Accounting on the P&L treatment of shortfalls and prepayments. It provides the CFO and business partners with clear, evidence-based insight to inform commitment and capacity decisions.

The role builds and maintains commitment tracking and financial models, translates usage and utilisation data into a finance-ready capacity view, and maintains a reconciled savings baseline across Platform, GenAI and Finance. It develops scenario analyses for commitment and renewal discussions, supports forecasting and budgeting processes, collaborates on vendor onboarding and contract terms, and uses AI tools in day-to-day analytical work. The position is part of FP&A and Tech & Product Finance, which support financial planning, strategic decision-making, and the economics of Canva’s infrastructure, cloud, compute, GPU and AI investments.

Requirements

• 8+ years’ experience in strategic finance, infrastructure or cloud finance, with proven expertise in commitment and capacity questions.
• 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, including the ability to pull data independently and identify discrepancies.
• Ability to challenge senior engineering and procurement stakeholders using data, with executive communication skills to present conclusions to the CFO.
• Fluent use of AI tools for model building and daily analytical work.
• Experience in FP&A or a similar function; familiarity with monthly close, quarterly forecasting and planning cycles.
• Ability to explain financial trade-offs 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 models, including the effects of ramps, shortfalls, rollovers and prepayments on free cash flow.
• Translate utilisation and usage data from AI Platform and FinOps into a Finance-supported capacity view across GPU and non-GPU resources.
• Own a single reconciled savings baseline for Platform, GenAI and Finance.
• Work with Accounting and technical accounting on recognition of shortfalls and prepayments and their treatment in the P&L.
• Prepare commitment and renewal models and scenario analyses, including commit sizing, break-even analysis and realised-benefit tracking, and present them to executives and the CFO.
• Partner with Hosting and Product & GenAI Finance so capacity and commitment assumptions are reflected in forecasts and BvA.
• Partner with Procurement, FinOps and Platform on vendor onboarding, contract terms and flex-down dates as new providers are added.
• Use AI tools in daily work to build models more quickly and keep analyses current.

Benefits

• Equity packages.
• Health benefits plans.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company contribution.
• Inclusive parental leave policy for 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