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.
About the teamWe are building an elite team to drive financial insight and strategy at Stripe. The Corporate Finance & Strategy team brings understanding and predictability to Stripe’s financials, and we work together with our key business partners to accelerate long term growth for Stripe.
What you’ll doResponsibilities- Partner with F&S and the Business to drive the long-term success of Stripe
- Ensure month close processes get done efficiently, accurately, and on time
- Partner across Finance, eg. Strategic Sourcing
- Work cross functionally to identify important strategy questions and answer them with data
- Build financial forecasts and targets, track performance, and understand deviations from actuals to drive strategy and operational rigor
- Gain deep knowledge and understanding of Stripe's business performance across geographies and user segments
- Automating away recurring work by utilizing AI
Who you are
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.
Minimum requirements- Experience in month end close processes and have demonstrated experience working closely and successfully across the other functions of the Finance Org (eg., Accounting, Tax, Treasury)
- Experience running recurring processes and organizing cross-functional partners and stakeholders to deliver materials on time (e.g. enabling, tracking, monitoring status, problem solving the month end close process; driving successful continuous improvement initiatives as it relates to domain of expertise)
- A strong understanding of accounting, accruals, and opex management
- Experience with financial analysis, financial forecasting, BvA (variance analysis), and other financial concepts
- Experience working on ambiguous problems and driving solutions/projects independently
- Ability to automate and use AI to streamline recurring tasks/analyses, in order to free up time to work on more strategic and higher impact work
- Experience building dashboards and data visualization tools from scratch
- A proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with business partners and department leads. You are seen as a trusted and objective advisor
- An enthusiastic "roll up your sleeves" mentality
- A proven ability to be a self-starter capable of driving business results without significant supervision
- Experience working in a global capacity (this team will work will all regions)
- Experience in a strategic finance function at a high-growth tech company, preferably in the payments/fintech space
Skills Required
- Experience with month-end close processes and collaboration across Accounting, Tax, Treasury, or other Finance functions.
- Experience managing recurring processes and coordinating cross-functional stakeholders to deliver materials on time.
- Strong understanding of accounting, accruals, and operating expense management.
- Experience with financial analysis, forecasting, budget-versus-actual variance analysis, and related financial concepts.
- Experience independently solving ambiguous problems and driving projects or solutions.
- Ability to automate recurring tasks and analyses using AI.
- Experience building dashboards and data visualization tools from scratch.
- Ability to build collaborative relationships and advise business partners and department leads.
- Self-starter with demonstrated ability to drive business results without significant supervision.
- Experience working globally across regions.
- Experience in strategic finance at a high-growth technology company, preferably in payments or fintech.
Stripe Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Stripe and has not been reviewed or approved by Stripe.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is robust, with medical, dental, and vision options for employees and dependents, plus mental-health resources and wellness support. Public materials also highlight wellness stipends that complement core insurance offerings.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Compensation packages often include equity grants or stock options alongside competitive salaries and performance-based bonuses, creating meaningful upside. Sales roles may also include commissions, broadening incentive opportunities.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-planning benefits include fertility coverage and adoption assistance, paired with generous parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents. These offerings sit alongside ample PTO and flexible scheduling in many teams.
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What We Do
Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size—from new startups to public companies like Salesforce and Facebook—use the company’s software to accept online payments and run technically sophisticated financial operations in more than 100 countries. Stripe helps new companies get started and grow their revenues, and established businesses accelerate into new markets and launch new business models. Over the long term, Stripe aims to increase the GDP of the internet.
