Director, Finance Transformation

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ireland.

📋 Description

• Establish the strategic framework for KAYAK's worldwide finance systems, ensuring that technological investments are aligned with business objectives and support a scalable, well-governed architecture.

• Act as the key authority for our NetSuite ERP ecosystem, standardizing workflows across associated tools such as Pontus (KAYAK’s internal financial reporting system), BlackLine, and FloQast, while owning the multi-year Finance Systems roadmap with a focus on accelerating close cycles, minimizing reconciliation risks, and enhancing data integrity.

• Supervise governance for NetSuite configurations, customizations, and upgrade cycles, balancing agility with SOX compliance, and define the integration architecture to ensure that transaction, billing, and reporting systems exchange clean and reliable data.

• Direct the development of KAYAK's finance AI and automation roadmap, pinpointing high-impact opportunities to lessen manual tasks — advocating for AI-driven solutions in forecasting, variance analysis, close coordination, and workforce planning.

• Collaborate with Data Engineering to establish a trusted data foundation before applying AI or machine learning to financial data, and maintain an AI use-case registry that governs the entire lifecycle of automations from inception to retirement.

• Hire, nurture, and retain a high-performing team of Systems Analysts, Finance Systems Product Managers, and Solution Engineers, creating clear career paths and fostering a culture of psychological safety, continuous learning, and constructive feedback.

• Convert intricate, multi-team finance transformation objectives into phased delivery plans with defined milestones, responsible parties, and success criteria, while managing capital and operating budgets and ensuring scope changes are transparent.

• Collaborate with leaders across Accounting, Tax, Treasury, FP&A, Internal Audit, and Engineering to align systems strategy with enterprise finance priorities, and construct data-driven business cases to present technology recommendations to the CFO, CAO, and corporate controllers.

• Represent Finance Systems priorities in corporate architecture forums and data governance discussions, creating internal opportunities for innovation — such as demos, showcases, and automation hackathons — to cultivate a culture of continuous improvement.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in finance systems, enterprise technology, or a related area, with a proven record of delivering complex systems at scale; equivalent experience, training, or transferable skills will also be considered.

• Hands-on experience with NetSuite ERP and knowledge of O2C, P2P, and R2R processes, including experience leading cross-functional transformation initiatives such as ERP migrations or payment system implementations.

• Proven experience implementing AI-driven or automation-first solutions within a finance or enterprise context.

• Ability to cultivate strong relationships across various teams and navigate complex organizational structures.

• Excellent communication skills, with experience in presenting structured recommendations to senior leadership in both written and verbal formats.

• A proactive mentality: you foresee risks and assist the organization in progressing rather than waiting for issues to arise.

• A degree in Accounting, Engineering, Computer Science, Finance, or a related field — or equivalent professional experience.

🏝️ Benefits

• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year.

• Focus on mental health and well-being:

• Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth.

• Company-paid subscription to HeadSpace.

• Company-wide week off each year - the entire team fully recharges (and returns without a backlog of work!).

• No meeting Fridays.

• Paid parental leave.

• Paid volunteer time.

• Focus on your career growth:

• Development Dollars.

• Leadership development programs.

• Access to thousands of on-demand e-learning resources.

• Travel Discounts.

• Employee Resource Groups.

• Five weeks of paid vacation plus an additional day off for your birthday.

• Private health and dental insurance.

• Income protection and life assurance.

• Employee Assistance Program - including 24/7 GP access and free legal advice.

• Pension plan contributions.

• Discounted gym membership.

• Bike2Work scheme.

• Season ticket loan.

• Social events and Thursday happy hours.

• Free lunch twice a week.