Chief Financial Officer

The company is founder led, profitable and growing. We are hiring a Chief Financial Officer, to partner with the most senior leaders of the business. The CFO will lead work across the organisation to achieve the rigorous reporting and governance expected of a public company, and guide us through an IPO. They will work with lines of business to provide high quality finance, budgeting, reporting, procurement, treasury, controls, accounting and investor relations. Perhaps unusually we are looking for a leader who is insightful and passionate about the impact of open source in the world. A finance leader who is also a software industry leader can articulate that impact to customers and their team, and will be better able to partner closely with both the CRO and the CEO. It is core to our mission that open source should enable companies to operate more efficiently, achieve more with less, aspire to greater velocity in their technology operations and innovate faster and with more focus. It will be important for our CFO to have a strong voice in how we demonstrate those benefits in our own operations, and to represent that with customers. Our ideal candidate will gain trust and have credibility with our sales and partner organisations, helping them to understand the dynamics and importance of profitability and sales efficiency while also helping them make the business case for Canonical open source with their prospects. The successful candidate will: Lead our finance strategy and team • Guide the strategic and annual business planning cycle • Educate the business to improve financial expertise • Implement strong risk management process • Cultivate passion for our products and customer focus • Demonstrate and ensure operational excellence and continuous improvement • Lead finance activities for capital structure and listing Promote business partnering • Partner with the CRO and our business development teams, including sales, channel, alliances, and field engineering • Partner with marketing, exchanging insights, indicators and regular analysis • Partner with our General Counsel and legal team, informing profit and global compliance matters • Lead investor relations Deliver operational finance • Strengthen the finance team through high quality hiring • Build a rigorous procurement capability, primarily for hardware, software and travel • Build an efficient treasury capability for global currency and cash management • Build organisational capability to ensure efficient core financial process delivery • Establish and ensure a strong controls environment • Enhance FP&A processes, tools and value add to the business • Implement finance systems and integrate with other Canonical platforms • Deliver world-class transparency and insights into data • Automate processes and controls to improve efficiency and reduce risk • Oversee relationships with auditors Maintain compliance and structure • Ensure global tax structure and transfer pricing agreements are fit for purpose • Respond to changes in the international tax environment • Comply with tax laws, rules and regulations in all jurisdictions where we operate • Support the corporate structure for resilience and shareholder value • Protect the value of Canonical intellectual property