GrowCFO Show
GrowCFO Show
Kevin Appleby
#97 My Route to Finance Leader in a Fast Growth Fintech with Danielle Keeven VP Finance at Paddle
33 minutes Posted Aug 30, 2022 at 6:30 am.
Born in the Netherlands, growing up in the Caribbean
The accidental accountant
Hospitality: Hyatt and Marriott
Move to Europe and the tech side of Hospitality
Accounts receivable in a SaaS business
moving from Booking.com to Messagebird
Why did you join paddle.com?
What does Paddle do?
The complexities of online business and global tax rules
Will you move on from VP Finance to a full CFO role?
Roald Dahl’s Matilda
What sort of mistakes do you see fast-growing SaaS companies making?
Building a strategy for internationalisation
Giving SaaS businesses the right data insights
What advice would you give other finance people looking to move to CFO roles
GrowCFO Competency framework
The art of delegation
The finance leader and fraud
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Danielle Keeven has had quite a journey to get to her current role as VP of Finance at paddle.com. She has crossed the globe and changed industry sectors. She has gone from roles in large multinationals to working in high-growth startups. Danielle shares her experiences with Kevin Appleby on this week’s GrowCFO Show.
Originally working in the Caribbean for large US multinationals such as Marriott and Hyatt, Danielle swapped to working in Europe for booking.com, then moved out of hospitality completely to work in fintech. This was a huge change and she tells us all about the challenges she faced in the episode.
Danielle Keeven is currently VP of finance at paddle.com. Paddle offers SaaS companies a completely different way to sell. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments-related apps and services, Paddle provides an all-in-one solution. Danielle explains how her finance expertise is applied to the design of the product as well as to running the finance team. We discuss in detail the problems that products like Paddle solve for SaaS founders, and some of the mistakes Danielle has seen these companies make.
Links
Danielle Keeven on LinkedIn
Kevin Appleby on LinkedIn
Paddle.com
GrowCFO Future CFO Programme
GrowCFO Strategy Programme
CFO Competency Framework
Free Course: First 100 Days in your new finance role
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