Were seeking a dynamic, mission-critical mastermind to lead our Finance transformation agenda across global systems, data, and systems. This role isnt just about reporting; its about building the foundation for hyper-scale growth and turning our Finance function into a data-driven, automated powerhouse.You will be the key operator and visionary transforming how Kahoot! enables revenue growth, optimizes our subscription payments, and safeguards the business: all while ensuring our global finance function is prepared for its next milestone!Key Collaborations: Operating at the Center of the Action!This role operates at the center of Kahoot!’s operating model, with key partnerships including:<ul><li>CFO &amp; Finance Leadership: Shaping the transformation strategy and driving adoption across all Finance teams (Accounting, Commercial, Operations).</li><li>Product &amp; Engineering Teams: Defining the systems, data pipelines and integration, and subscription payment requirements needed to rocket fuel revenue and scale.</li><li>Data &amp; Analytics Teams: Ensuring our Finance data models are scalable, governed, and integrated into our enterprise architecture.</li><li>Sales, Sales Operations &amp; Customer Success: Integrate financial and billing data with CRM, business intelligence, and customer workflows.</li><li>Payments &amp; Vendor Partners: Managing relationships with billing, gateway, and risk vendors to optimize performance and cost</li></ul>Core Responsibilities: Your Impact Zones!Strategic Leadership &amp; Transformation: You Drive Mindset and Capabilities Change<ul><li>Co-lead the development and high-impact execution of the Finance and payments transformation roadmap, aligned perfectly with our business growth and Finance vision.</li><li>Identify opportunities to redesign workflows, deploy automation, and eliminate manual effort (we call it ditching the dull stuff!) across the entire CFO organization.</li><li>Drive a cultural and capability shift toward Digital Finance, leading the charge on training, change management, and adoption</li></ul>Analytics Enablement: You Power Up Actionable Insights<ul><li>Lead the analytics modernization charge, enabling Finance to evolve from static reports to proactive insights and predictive models.</li><li>Embed tools and frameworks that reduce dependency on manual analysis, boosting our diagnostic capabilities.</li><li>Deliver complex data analysis, stunning dashboarding, and insightful ad-hoc reporting to our leadership and key business partners.</li></ul>Payments &amp; Risk Strategy and Execution: You Deliver Real Value <ul><li>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.</li><li>Collaborate with Product, Engineering and Customer Experience to optimize authorization rates, drastically reduce involuntary churn, and deliver a seamless checkout and renewal experience.</li><li>Monitor payment cost trends and drive cost efficiency across provider contracts and global routes.</li><li>Partner with vendors to pilot and roll out improvements to billing workflows, dunning logic, retries, and reconciliation</li><li>Serve as Finance’s subject matter expert on payment systems integrations and customer-level payment behavior</li><li>Implement and evolve robust risk controls to stop fraud and chargebacks in their tracks!</li></ul>Systems &amp; Digital Infrastructure: You Enable Future Growth<ul><li>Partner with the CFO on the evaluation, deployment, and evolution of our Finance systems (ERP, Tax Engines, Billing, Reporting).</li><li>Champion automation across core Finance processes, exploring RPA solutions, AI agents, and API integrations </li><li>Lead governance of master data, systems documentation, and security protocols, keeping our data clean and safe.</li></ul>Your Superpowers: Technical Expertise &amp; BehaviorsTechnical Fluency: You Lead by Example<ul><li>Tool Proficiency: You have expertise in modern Finance and analytics platforms (MS Power BI, ThoughtSpot, Recurly, HubSpot, MS Dynamics, Avalara, Google BigQuery).</li><li>Coding &amp; Automation: Practical knowledge of Python, SQL, or similar coding tools to automate workflows and build reusable datasets.</li><li>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.</li></ul>Core Competencies &amp; Behaviors:<ul><li>Strategic Thinking - Connects dots across business, systems, and outcomes; anticipates needs and plans for scale</li><li>Technical Leadership - Demonstrates depth across tools, payments, automation, and risk while lifting the capability of the team</li><li>Operational Excellence - Designs repeatable, robust processes that improve accuracy, transparency, and speed</li><li>Influence &amp; Collaboration - Leads through influence across technical and business teams; earns trust and drives alignment</li><li>Change Leadership - Champions adoption, training, and behavioral shifts toward automation and data-driven decision making</li><li>Customer Empathy - Designs systems, reports, and payment experiences with end-user value and experience in mind</li></ul>Success Factors: Your success will be measured by hitting these mission goals:<ul><li>Transformation Execution: Roadmap milestones achieved with measurable impact (cycle time, adoption, scalability).</li><li>Payments Optimization: Authorization rates improved, involuntary churn crushed, and cost-to-collect lowered.</li><li>Data Enablement: Finance has structured, governed data and a reduced reliance on manual workarounds.</li><li>Systems Maturity - ERP, billing, and reporting tools delivering consistent, automated, and governed outputs</li><li>Fraud &amp; Risk Management - Effective control frameworks in place to manage payment fraud and chargeback rates</li><li>Cross-Functional Trust: Finance is seen as a proactive, knowledgeable, and reliable partner in systems, payments, and analytics.</li></ul><ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Business, or Data Science (Master’s or CPA/CMA is a huge plus!)</li></ul><ul><li>10+ years of experience in analytics supporting SaaS businesses (B2C highly preferred), payments and risk industry, Finance transformation, and/or systems leadership.</li><li>Proven track record leading cross-functional transformation programs in Finance or Revenue Operations environments.</li><li>Expertise in implementing or scaling reporting, analytics or billing tools (e.g., Recurly, Adyen, Stripe, PayPal, Power BI, BigQuery, or Microsoft Dynamics).</li><li>Demonstrated ability to lead change, manage vendors, and influence senior stakeholders across technical and commercial domains</li></ul>