Corporate Accounting Manager, Canva
12 month Fixed Term Contract
$134-206k
Publishing and design platform
Job no longer available
Publishing and design platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$134-206k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower the world to design.
Role
Who you are
- You’re a strategic, hands-on accounting manager who thrives in fast-paced environments and loves building scalable financial processes
- You’re a problem solver who embraces change, enjoys working cross-functionally, and is passionate about making complex things simple
- Experience in corporate accounting, financial reporting, and operational finance—ideally in a high-growth or public company
- Strong understanding of GAAP, SOX compliance, and internal controls
- A problem solver who thrives in fast-paced environments and enjoys optimizing processes
- Excellent communication skills—you can simplify complex financial concepts for non-financial teams
- A passion for automation, technology, and improving workflows
- Experience working with ERP systems (bonus points for NetSuite!)
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Corporate Accounting Manager on a 12 month FTC to help scale and improve our accounting operations
- In this role, you’ll be hands-on in managing key accounting processes, supporting financial close, and driving efficiency through automation and continuous improvement
- Take ownership of key accounting processes, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting in compliance with GAAP and global standards
- Strengthen internal controls and SOX compliance, ensuring financial accuracy and integrity
- Introduce automation, AI, and new technology to streamline accounting processes and improve efficiency
- Drive process improvements to make financial operations faster, smoother, and more scalable
- Partner with teams across Canva to simplify financial processes, provide insights that drive better decision-making and elevate financial understanding across the company
- Support audits and regulatory requirements, working closely with external auditors and internal teams
- Corporate Accounting is all about running a fast, accurate, and efficient close process while keeping things compliant, scalable, and always improving
- We’re building the finance foundations to support Canva’s growth and long-term success
- We focus on simplifying processes, leveraging automation, and using technology and AI to make accounting smarter and more efficient
- As Canva grows, so does our financial complexity, and our team plays a key role in keeping our financials accurate, timely, and reliable
- Beyond the numbers, we partner with teams across Canva to simplify financial processes and provide insights that drive better decision-making
Our take
Launched in 2013, Canva is a free online visual communications and design platform. It features a vast range of templates including presentations, websites, and social media graphics, plus a huge library of fonts, stock photography, illustrations, video footage, and audio clips.
With the aim to empower 100% of the world to communicate in ways that were once limited to the 1%, Canva was founded on the belief that people shouldn’t need to understand complex software to unlock their creativity. Simplicity is central to Canva’s offering, its straightforward drag-and-drop user interface avoiding complex tools that require training. This approach has been hugely popular and has been key in setting the company apart in the market, with over 90% of the Fortune 500 now using the site.
More recently, Canva has broadened its offerings through a number of acquisitions and now offers a full visual communications platform, featuring stock content, innovative editing features, and data visualization. Zeetings, Pexels & Pixabay, Kaleido, Smartmockups and Flourish have all joined Canva, and the business is well set to continue leading and innovating in the space.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
56% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 12 rounds)
May 2024
$400m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Sep 2021
$200m
LATE VC
Total funding: $968.6m
Company benefits
- Equity packages — we want our success to be yours too
- Inclusive parental leave policies supporting all parents & carers
- An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance supporting wellbeing, social connection, and office setup
- Flexible leave options empowering you to recharge and thrive
Company HQ
Surry Hills, NSW
Leadership
Cameron Adams
(Co-Founder & CPO)Cameron studied at the University of Melbourne before working as a Developer and Designer for Eclipse and Google for a combined 5 years. They then founded Fluent.io in 2011, and Canva in July 2012.
Melanie Perkins
(Co-Founder & CEO)Having studied at the University of Western Australia, Melanie first founded Fusion Books in 2007 and and co-founded Canva in 2012. Melanie is now CEO of Canva.
Cliff Obrecht
(Co-Founder & COO)Having studied at the University of Western Australia, Cliff spent 5 years as Managing Director of Fusion Books. They left this role in 2013, having co-founded Canva with Melanie and Cameron the previous year.
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