About this role
Job title: Cost Accounting Manager
About the Role The Cost Accounting Manager at Canonical leads cost recognition, cost management, and automation initiatives across the finance function to ensure accurate IFRS reporting and scalable cost processes in a global, mostly remote environment. This role collaborates across multiple teams to harmonize cost accounting, vendor management and operational spend with a focus on speed, transparency, and automation.
What You'll Do
- Collaborate with Procurement, Commercial Systems, Operations, Legal, and FP&A to design and maintain scalable cost management, allocation and reporting processes.
- Drive process and configuration improvements in NetSuite and related systems for end-to-end automation of the cost life cycle.
- Incorporate industry best practices, emerging technology and AI to raise the bar for reporting speed and accuracy.
- Review and evaluate the cost recognition impact of non-standard expenses.
- Lead, mentor and develop a team of cost accounting professionals.
- Work across teams including Information Systems, Legal, Business Services, Financial Planning & Analysis and Commercial Business Systems to align understanding and ensure that the accounting treatment of costs, vendor management and operational spend is accurate, consistent, and highly automated.
- Ensure proper application of cost accounting guidance for public market scrutiny.
What We're Looking For
- Professionally qualified accounting leader with expertise in cost accounting and IFRS (including IFRS 16/IAS 38).
- Experience building scalable cost review and cost recognition processes.
- Ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams to ensure accurate, consistent, and automated accounting treatment of costs, vendor management and operational spend.
- Deep personal interest in the software and technology industry; data analytics and software engineering experience are a strong plus.
- Strong presentation, goal-setting, and people-management skills; track record of leading and developing teams.
Nice to Have
- Data analytics and software engineering experience; a passion for software/technology is highly valued.