Financial Planning and Analysis

• - 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.

Director of Finance, Payments – Finance Transformation

Finance Operations Internship, Part-Time or Full-Time