Hybrid Director of Finance, Payments – Finance Transformation

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About the role

  • Co-lead the development and high-impact execution of the Finance and payments transformation roadmap, aligned perfectly with our business growth and Finance vision.
  • Identify opportunities to redesign workflows, deploy automation, and eliminate manual effort (we call it ditching the dull stuff!) across the entire CFO organization.
  • Drive a cultural and capability shift toward Digital Finance, leading the charge on training, change management, and adoption
  • Lead the analytics modernization charge, enabling Finance to evolve from static reports to proactive insights and predictive models.
  • Embed tools and frameworks that reduce dependency on manual analysis, boosting our diagnostic capabilities.
  • Deliver complex data analysis, stunning dashboarding, and insightful ad-hoc reporting to our leadership and key business partners.
  • You are the owner of Kahoot!’s global payments stack strategy and execution! This includes SaaS billing platforms (like Recurly), payment gateways (Stripe, Adyen), and fraud prevention solutions.
  • Collaborate with Product, Engineering and Customer Experience to optimize authorization rates, drastically reduce involuntary churn, and deliver a seamless checkout and renewal experience.
  • Monitor payment cost trends and drive cost efficiency across provider contracts and global routes.
  • Partner with vendors to pilot and roll out improvements to billing workflows, dunning logic, retries, and reconciliation.
  • Serve as Finance’s subject matter expert on payment systems integrations and customer-level payment behavior.
  • Implement and evolve robust risk controls to stop fraud and chargebacks in their tracks!
  • Partner with the CFO on the evaluation, deployment, and evolution of our Finance systems (ERP, Tax Engines, Billing, Reporting).
  • Champion automation across core Finance processes, exploring RPA solutions, AI agents, and API integrations.
  • Lead governance of master data, systems documentation, and security protocols, keeping our data clean and safe.
  • Technical Fluency: You Lead by Example.
  • Tool Proficiency: You have expertise in modern Finance and analytics platforms (MS Power BI, ThoughtSpot, Recurly, HubSpot, MS Dynamics, Avalara, Google BigQuery).
  • Coding & Automation: Practical knowledge of Python, SQL, or similar coding tools to automate workflows and build reusable datasets.
  • AI Readiness: you leverage LLM tools, and have familiarity with RPA platforms and the orchestration of AI agents (for reconciliation, reporting, etc.) to augment Finance capability.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Business, or Data Science (Master’s or CPA/CMA is a huge plus!)
  • 10+ years of experience in analytics supporting SaaS businesses (B2C highly preferred), payments and risk industry, Finance transformation, and/or systems leadership.
  • Proven track record leading cross-functional transformation programs in Finance or Revenue Operations environments.
  • Expertise in implementing or scaling reporting, analytics or billing tools (e.g., Recurly, Adyen, Stripe, PayPal, Power BI, BigQuery, or Microsoft Dynamics).
  • Demonstrated ability to lead change, manage vendors, and influence senior stakeholders across technical and commercial domains

Benefits

  • A fast-growing, international environment with an informal, fun, but driven culture
  • A competitive compensation package
  • Autonomy and flexibility
  • Remote onboarding
  • Pension contribution
  • Hybrid - remote work setup
  • Flexible working
  • Buddy program
  • Social and company events (virtual and in-person)
  • Equity program
  • These are the benefits applied to candidates working in Norway and Denmark. As for the candidates based in Poland we offer B2B consulting agreement.

Job title

Director of Finance, Payments – Finance Transformation

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Lead

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Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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