The opportunity
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…
What you'll do
Lead, develop, and support a high-performing team, setting clear priorities: and expectations while fostering accountability and professional growth across key GL areas, including operating expenses, accruals, debt, and related balance-sheet and income-statement accounts.
Own the team’s monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities, including: journal entries, reconciliations, analytical reviews, variance explanations, management reporting, and audit support.
Provide oversight and judgment on complex accounting matters, ensure: compliance with U.S. GAAP, and maintain effective accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls.
Partner closely with Finance & Strategy, Treasury, People, Legal,: Procurement, Workplace, Finance Operations, and other teams to support business initiatives, resolve accounting issues, and optimize global processes.
Build scalable processes that shorten the close, improve accuracy,: timeliness, auditability, and the quality of financial explanations, reduce manual work, and establish clear ownership and consistent execution.
Champion the thoughtful use of financial systems, data, automation, and AI by: translating accounting needs into requirements and establishing appropriate review, monitoring, documentation, and controls.
What they're looking for
- + years of progressive public accounting and/or industry experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance, with a CPA or equivalent professional accounting qualification
- Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and experience researching, evaluating, and: communicating complex accounting conclusions
- Experience designing, implementing, and executing internal controls in a SOX: or similarly controlled financial-reporting environment
- Demonstrated success improving accounting processes or systems and using: complex datasets to investigate issues, assess results, and support complex decisions
- Strong people leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration: skills, with the ability to prioritize and deliver high-quality results in a fast-moving environment
- Experience at a large public accounting firm evaluating high volume and high: complexity transactions and within the technology, payments, financial services, an/or another rapidly scaling industry
- Experience leading geographically distributed teams and financial-systems: implementations, integrations, and/or process transformations
