Kahoot!

Director of Finance, Payments – Finance Transformation

Kahoot!

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Oslo • 🇳🇴 Norway

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

BigQueryERPPythonRPASQL

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.

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Hard skills
data analysisdashboardingautomationcodingPythonSQLRPAAI agentspredictive modelingrisk controls
Soft skills
leadershipchange managementcollaborationinfluencetrainingcommunicationproblem-solvingvendor managementcross-functional leadershipcultural shift
Certifications
Bachelor’s degreeMaster’s degreeCPACMA