Group Financial Controller

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From Canonical’s original posting

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. 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. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing. We are hiring a Group Financial Controller. The ideal candidate has a deep passion for systems accounting, a track record of preparing finance functions for public markets and an innovative mindset that leverages technology and AI to build efficient and robust accounting workflows. The Accounting team ensures the integrity of our financial information and serves as the primary stewards of the business’ financial health. They design and operate a governance framework underpinned by…