Finance and Strategy SpecialistActive

The opportunity

We are building an elite team to drive financial insight and strategy at Stripe. The 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 do

  • Partner with F&S and Business Leaders to drive the long-term success of Stripe

  • 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

  • Define metrics and leading indicators of business performance and partner: with the Analytics team to develop tools and dashboards to make these metrics widely accessible across Stripe

What they're looking for

  • –14 years of experience in a relevant analytical or finance role
  • Intermediate (at a minimum) or advanced knowledge of SQL or Python is: required - you must be well versed working with extremely large and complex datasets + extracting insights
  • 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