Financial Analyst
CanonicalRemote
Full Time
Posted March 9, 2026
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Job Description
A Financial Analyst at Canonical plays a key role in financial planning, analysis, and reporting, providing insights to support strategic decision-making and business growth in a remote, tech-focused environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyze business operations to generate insights into unit economics, variance drivers, and KPIs
- Support quarterly and annual financial planning, forecasting, and reporting
- Conduct analysis of strategic or financial impacts of commercial initiatives
- Create data-driven analyses and processes to enable efficient scaling of the company
- Collaborate with stakeholders to communicate progress against financial and strategic targets
Requirements
- A highly analytical independent thinker with a desire to learn how to leverage business judgment, driven by data, to advise on critical financial, commercial and strategic decisions.
- Generate insights into business operations by analyzing unit economics, drivers of variance, and other KPIs.
- Support quarterly and annual financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and monthly budget reviews.
- Provide analysis of commercial initiatives that have a strategic or financial impact on the business.
- Create objective analyses and processes for a fast-growing tech company to scale efficiently and make data-driven decisions.
- Support multi-functional change projects designed to enhance systems, processes, and data accuracy.
- Partner with and communicate business progress to key stakeholders against financial and strategic targets.
- An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university.
- Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.
- Excellent presentation and communication skills.
- Curiosity and willingness to work on a wide range of projects.
- Proficiency in spreadsheets and financial modeling.
- Understanding of core accounting principles.
- Professional written and spoken English.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability.
- Passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation.
- Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments.
- Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long.
- Previous experience in an analytically focused finance or business role.
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, business, or related field.
Benefits & Perks
Annual compensation review
Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
Annual holiday leave
Maternity and paternity leave
Team Member Assistance Program
Wellness Platform
Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events
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