Senior Director of Financial Operations, Kraken

• Proven track record as a hands-on finance operator who has driven real cost and efficiency outcomes — not a strategist, a builder
• Deep experience across the full financial operations stack: AP, AR, Payroll, TOPS, Tax, close, reporting, and controls
• Demonstrated ability to redesign financial workflows and operating models from first principles in a high-growth environment
• Hands-on experience applying AI tools and automation to financial operations — shipped outcomes, not just awareness; comfortable building coordinated automation across multiple functions, not just point solutions
• Strong track record designing and implementing KPIs, performance targets, and operational dashboards for finance teams
• Proven ability to coordinate with and influence engineering and systems teams to prioritize and execute finance work — without direct line authority
• Experience partnering with senior leaders on org design and headcount decisions in a Finance context
• Strong cross-functional operator in a remote-first, distributed environment — able to influence without authority
• High agency: drives outcomes without perfect conditions, ideal resourcing, or a large team beneath them
• We encourage you to apply for roles where you don't fully meet the listed requirements, especially if you're passionate or knowledgable about crypto!

Desirable

• Kraken's Finance team operates at the intersection of crypto-native speed and institutional-grade rigor
• As the business scales globally and prepares for the next chapter of its growth, Finance is being held to the same operating standard as Product, Engineering, Technology, and Marketing — a product-driven platform, not a traditional back-office function
• That means designing systems from first principles rather than legacy defaults, maintaining tight integration with product, data, risk, and operations, and delivering real-time visibility and clear ownership
• Automation and AI are expected to continuously remove risk from the business, not just support it
• This is a remote-first team distributed across multiple time zones, with a bias for asynchronous communication, high agency, and work that compounds at scale
• This role owns a coordinated, multi-workstream finance operations transformation — spanning people, process, and automation — with direct accountability for outcomes across the Finance function. This is a hands-on builder role, not a strategic advisory one
• Own the ongoing uplift of the Product – Finance operating model, ensuring it delivers real-time visibility, clear ownership, and tight integration between Finance and the business
• Define and maintain the right KPIs and targets for each finance team, and build out the dashboards and reporting infrastructure needed to monitor progress and hold teams accountable
• Partner closely with the CFO on headcount rationalization and org optimization across Finance
• Identify and implement automation and efficiency opportunities across TOPS, Payroll, AP, Tax, and other finance workflows — targeting step-change outcomes, not incremental improvement
• Build and own a coordinated automation and AI layer that simplifies work finance-wide — not fragmented point solutions
• Eliminate manual and inefficient work across the full financial operations stack: AP, AR, close, reporting, and controls
• Coordinate with internal technical teams — FinSys and Engineering — to prioritize and execute automation and systems work; drive alignment without direct line authority over those teams
• Maintain working knowledge of how money moves through Kraken’s systems — system connectivity, architecture, and data flows — sufficient to identify gaps and work credibly with engineering partners on solutions
• Execute directly — this leader will get their hands dirty and deliver outcomes with a lean team
• Partner closely with the CFO and cross-functional leaders across systems, data, and operations to drive alignment