Corporate Accountant

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

The Accounting Team is responsible for understanding and telling Stripe’s financial story and shaping our collective understanding of how Stripe is performing as a business. Our primary focus is maintaining a well-controlled environment that effectively supports corporate governance, financial reporting and disclosure requirements. We advise and enable Stripe to grow. We operate in a fast-paced environment and collaborate significantly with cross-functional and international teams.

In this role, you will own key corporate accounting areas and processes which support the recognition and reporting of financial results.  You will collaborate significantly with various stakeholders across finance, people, legal, product, and engineering teams to understand and advise on accounting treatment of underlying business initiatives and transactions. Other responsibilities include reconciling balance sheets and P&L accounts, and providing supplementary financial information for internal and external reports. You will implement and maintain effective control environments.

• Plan and perform monthly and quarterly close activities, including balance sheet reconciliations, variance analyses and analytical reviews, producing internal management reporting and external audit support
• Research and prepare technical accounting analyses for new accounting pronouncements and/or business initiatives
• Develop and maintain accounting policies and procedural documentation
• Analyze financial performance, identify trends, and provide clear variance explanations to key stakeholders. 
• Participate in building scalable accounting processes to support global growth, including developing accounting requirements to enable automation of accounting procedures
• Assist in design, implementation and execution of effective internal control procedures
• Partner with Product, Systems, Treasury, Tax, People and Legal to support internal financial systems process improvements and automation

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

• 6+ years of relevant public accounting and/or industry experience 
• B.A. or B.S degree in Accounting or Finance (CPA strongly preferred)
• Fluency in U.S. GAAP and ability to research complex accounting topics
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, both written and verbal
• Strong knowledge of Excel and experience working with large data
• Demonstrated experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders
• Experience with internal controls (design, implementation and execution)
• Demonstrated history of taking on various types of challenging projects and producing results
• Solution-oriented mindset with enthusiasm for establishing best practices

• Knowledge of (or experience in) the technology or payments industry
• SQL experience