Head of Financial Planning & Analysis

Canonical; Douglas; Remote; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning budget USD 2,000 per year

Twice-yearly team sprints in person

40 days leave per year

Maternity and paternity leave

Wellness platform

Bi-annual compensation review

Travel with lounge access

Job summary

Canonical is seeking a Head of Financial Planning & Analysis to lead global FP&A teams and drive monthly reviews, forecasting, and annual planning. You will guide cross-functional alignment and shape the long-term FP&A roadmap while mentoring colleagues across functions.

The role supports a remote AMER/EMEA time-zone footprint with an option to base in our London office. A data-driven leader with a track record of building scalable FP&A processes is ideal.

Qualifications

• Exceptional academic track record.
• Experience and leadership of teams to grow career growth.
• Experience in high growth, multi-currency/geography tech business.

Responsibilities

• Develop executive dashboards and board reporting.
• Analyze monthly results and KPIs for forecasting and planning.
• Provide commercial analysis and growth targets; evaluate strategic initiatives.
• Collaborate with product managers to share market insights and competitive intelligence.
• Manage budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning.

Skills

Leadership

Financial analysis

BI tools

Spreadsheet proficiency

English fluency

Tools

BI reporting tools

CRM systems

ERP systems

Job description

Home Based - Americas; Home based - EMEA; Office Based - London, UK

We are hiring for the Head of Financial Planning & Analysis, to lead the global FP&A Teams and be a leader within the wider finance team. You will play a key part leading our monthly business reviews and forecasting, annual planning, and continuously drive cross-functional business alignment, as well as develop the long term roadmap for the FP&A team. Our ideal candidate is a highly analytical independent thinker, who has a proven record of leading a team to use data analysis to advise on critical financial, commercial and strategic decisions.

Our business opportunity is significant; we can deliver both infrastructure and business applications to the enterprise market. As companies refresh their data centers, our goal is to be the platform for cloud and apps. As they re-architect their business applications to embrace open source, our goal is to deliver the majority of their databases, analytics, messaging, publishing, identity, security, workflow... everything that is open source. We are committed to do that at the most efficient price points possible to drive down the total cost of IT, but this is nevertheless a significant global market, and our ambition is to be counted among the most valued software suppliers to the Global 10,000.

Location: This is a remote role in AMER or EMEA time zones, with the option to be based in our London office.

The role entails

• Develop executive reporting dashboards and documents including Board reporting, monthly financial results and other management presentations
• Analyse & Report 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
• Drive improvements in data analysis, and determine the appropriate processes, methodologies, and modeling techniques to deliver insights.
• Partner with Accounting and Investor Relations to support month end close, flux review processes, and financial reporting
• Drive multi-functional change projects designed to enhance systems, processes, and data accuracy
• Play a key role in preparation of critical public financial documents to support an IPO process, including supporting the production of investor materials and public filings
• Guide the annual FP&A activity calendar to provide decision support to the executive team
• Mentor colleagues within the FP&A team, as well as peer teams
• Control costs via methodical reviews of department spend, procurement strategies, and business wide process efficiency

What we are looking for in you

• An exceptional academic track record
• Experience and a deeply rooted passion to lead successful team members, and aid in their career growth
• Have operated in a high growth, multi currency/geography technology business with a mixed go-to-market motion
• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities
• Highest ethical standards, integrity, authenticity, credibility, and character
• Curiosity and willingness to work on a wide range of projects
• Proficiency in spreadsheets, financial modeling, and BI tools
• Understanding of core accounting principles
• Professional written and spoken English
• Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
• Passionate, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet and exceed commitments
• International travel 2-4 times a year for company events up to two weeks long

Nice-to-have skills

• MBA or equivalent combination of professional certifications and experience
• Previous experience as a subject matter expert in Financial Planning & Analysis
• Experience with Business Intelligence reporting, CRM and ERP systems

What we offer colleagues

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We assess performance and revisit compensation twice annually to ensure we recognize outstanding colleagues. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Bi-annual compensation review
• Company recognition rewards
• 40 days annual leave per annum, including public holidays and our All Company holiday periods
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues, with Priority Pass for lounge access

About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. We are founder‑led, profitable, and growing.

Powered by worldwide distributed collaboration since our inception in 2004, we believe tech and business leadership can emerge anywhere. We have no central headquarters. Most of us work from home, but we are exceptionally disciplined about this. We have very high expectations of all colleagues, and are champions of excellence. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer

As set forth in Canonical’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.