The opportunity
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.
What you'll do
End-to-end controllership for assigned legal entity(ies), including financial: close, statutory reporting, audit readiness, regulatory filings, and adoption with the board or local management
Preparation and sign-off of statutory financial statements and coordination: of statutory adoption processes with local boards and directors and external advisors
Manage external auditors and local service providers, setting scope, driving: timelines, resolving findings, and maintaining high-quality documentation for audits, reviews, and regulatory inspections
Oversee monthly, quarterly, and year-end close, leading complex journal: entries, reconciliations, technical accounting assessments, variance analysis, and executive reporting packages
Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of entity-level accounting: policies and internal control frameworks, and own SOX and internal control compliance and remediation where applicable
Serve as the primary business partner to Tax, Treasury, Legal, FP&A, and: regional finance teams on transactions and policy changes that affect the entity's accounting, tax, and regulatory outcomes
What they're looking for
- Professional accountancy qualification (CA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent): with 9+ years of progressive accounting experience, including significant controllership exposure
- Deep hands-on experience with monthly and year-end close, statutory financial: statement preparation, external audits, regulatory filings, and variance analysis
- Strong working knowledge of US GAAP and IFRS, and experience applying local: GAAP and converging treatments across frameworks
- Demonstrated experience owning internal control programs (SOX or similar) and: executing control design and remediation
- Track record of delivering automation or process simplification at the entity: level (ERP, reconciliation tooling, reporting pipeline improvements)
- Strong technical and problem-solving skills, advanced Excel ability, and: experience with financial systems (e.g., Oracle, Workiva, Blackline, or similar). Familiarity with SQL and BI tools or scripting is a plus.
- Excellent stakeholder management: ability to partner with Tax, Treasury, Legal, FP&A, and regional teams to drive timely, risk-mitigated outcomes
- High integrity, sound professional judgment, attention to detail, and the: ability to operate under tight deadlines
