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About the Role

Seeking a highly autonomous Head of AI within Finance to identify, shape, and deliver AI-driven value. This role combines strategy, stakeholder management, solution design, and hands-on delivery, working directly with the CFO and SVP Finance.

Responsibilities

• Identify and deliver high-impact AI use cases across Finance (FP&A, AP/AR, reconciliations, reporting, controls).
• Translate Finance problems into deployable AI solutions.
• Drive end-to-end ownership from idea through MVP, production, adoption, and measurable ROI.
• Own use case identification, ROI, delivery, and reporting as the accountable business lead.
• Partner with the CFO and SVP Finance to define the AI roadmap for Finance.
• Identify high-value opportunities across cost reduction, automation, revenue insight, and risk control.
• Build and maintain a prioritised backlog of AI use cases.
• Define success metrics including ROI, efficiency, accuracy, and cycle time.
• Own full lifecycle delivery, including problem definition, business case and ROI, solution design, build, deployment, and scaling.
• Operate as a player-coach and builder, ensuring solutions progress from MVP to scaled adoption.
• Act as the primary AI point of contact for Finance leadership.
• Engage directly with the CFO, SVP Finance, Finance Directors, and Heads of Function.
• Translate complex AI concepts into clear commercial outcomes.
• Manage expectations, prioritisation, and trade-offs.
• Design and build automation workflows, AI agents, and data pipelines and integrations.
• Integrate with enterprise platforms such as Copilot, Bedrock, and the internal AI stack.
• Ensure all Finance AI solutions align with data governance, financial controls, and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with Legal, Security, and Compliance to de-risk deployments.
• Embed responsible AI practices and auditability into every solution.
• Drive genuine adoption within Finance teams.
• Track and report on cost savings, productivity gains, and accuracy improvements.
• Ensure solutions are reusable and scalable across Finance and the wider business.

Requirements

• Proven experience delivering AI and automation solutions within a business function, ideally Finance.
• Strong understanding of Finance processes, including reconciliation, AP/AR, reporting, and controls.
• Ability to operate as a self-sufficient individual contributor across both strategy and delivery.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders at SVP and CFO level.
• Hands-on capability across AI tooling (LLMs, agents, automation platforms).
• Hands-on capability across data and integration work (SQL, APIs, pipelines).
• Commercially minded — prioritises ROI and business outcomes over experimentation.
• Builder mindset — comfortable being hands-on alongside strategic work.
• High ownership — accountable for outcomes, not activity.
• Executive presence — able to challenge, influence, and earn trust with senior stakeholders.

Skills

• AI tooling (LLMs, agents, automation platforms)
• Data and integration work (SQL, APIs, pipelines)
• Copilot
• Bedrock
• Snowflake
• Workday
• ERP systems (Workday, SAP, or equivalent)
• AWS AI services
• Azure AI services

Location

• London

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Head-of-level

About the Company

• Planet is a global provider of integrated technology and payments solutions for retail and hospitality customers.
• We create great experiences for millions of people using our payments, software, and tax-free solutions.
• Planet empowers customers to deliver great experiences by combining payments and software to drive loyalty, increase revenue, and save time.
• Founded over 35 years ago with headquarters in London, Planet has more than 2,500 employees across six continents serving customers in over 120 markets.
• Planet provides integrated software, payment and technology solutions for its customers in the Hospitality and Retail sectors and worldwide via a network of global Financial Services Partners.
• We have evolved our services, delivering an innovative digital commerce platform that puts customer experience first.
• With headquarters in London and around 3,000 expert employees located across six continents we serve customers in over 120 markets.

Equal Opportunity

• Planet is an equal opportunity employer where diversity is valued, and all employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made in order to allow for an individual to perform the essential functions of this role successfully.