Finance & Strategy Analyst

Who we are  

About Stripe

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 team

The Finance & Strategy team is an integral thought partner to Stripe’s core functional leaders.  We bring understanding and predictability to Stripe’s bottom line financials.  We work cross functionally across many surfaces at Stripe and help steward Stripe’s resource investments to improve the durability of our long term financial performance.

What you’ll do

Role Overview

We’re looking for a F&S Analyst to join our growing team. This individual will help us with the forecasting, budgeting, and reporting for RADS, which is our Data Products (Sigma, SDP, SCN) and RevRec. This individual should be flexible and will have a wide range of activities from HC Opex to Revenue reporting. They will partner closely with the F&S Lead for RADS and have business partnership responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner closely with business leaders to drive successful outcomes
• Leverage your financial background to support and influence key strategic and business decisions
• Be your business teams’ financial partner for analysis and evaluation of strategic projects and initiatives (e.g. foundational investments or business model shifts)
• Design and provide analytical rigor to measure efficiency and ROI of investments in headcount and non-headcount expenses
• Drive reporting, process, and discipline for finance routines to shape and influence decision-making (e.g. budget, forecast, monthly reviews, long-range plans)
  Build and own models for in-depth analyses, while ensuring their quality, timeliness, and accuracy
• Define metrics and leading indicators of business performance
• Partner with cross-functional teams, such as Data Science, to develop reporting dashboards and forecasts
• Drive continuous process improvement, standardization, simplification, and reporting enhancements

Experience & Skills

• Experience with Headcount Opex
• Experience in FP&A
• Positive attitude, ambition, and a strong bias for action