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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

Our finance team is responsible for shaping our understanding of how Stripe is performing as a business, as well as what our best opportunities are for continued growth. We’re looking for an experienced financial controller to join our International Accounting team. As a key part of our controllership team in Singapore you will help us build our technical accounting and financial reporting processes, work with business partners, financial partners, external stakeholders and our world-class engineers. You will help us develop best in class accounting processes and help track our progress within a fast-paced environment that’s growing globally.

What You’ll Do

Responsibilities

  • Lead Financial Close Processes: Manage the monthly close of US GAAP books and local books, including balance sheet reconciliations, supporting schedules, fluctuation analysis, and other reporting deliverables.
  • Statutory Audit Process: Own the end-to-end statutory audit process, including the financial statement preparation under relevant local GAAP, technical memos, audit support, culminating in presentations to the board of directors for the assigned entities.
  • Technical Expertise: Maintain fluency with US GAAP and IFRS, research, document and drive the necessary technical accounting memos.
  • Cross-functional Collaboration: Participate in cross-functional projects for new initiatives and partner effectively with Tax, Transfer Pricing, Treasury, Corporate Accounting, Regulatory Compliance, and Legal teams on diverse projects or support financial decision-making.
  • Outsourcing Management: Carefully supervise finance outsourcing partners to ensure compliance and filing requirements are met timely and accurately
  • Process Efficiency: Drive improvement on the existing processes through finance transformation initiatives and automation projects, including AI identification/ recommendation and implementation.
  • Regulatory Compliance: Prepare regulatory and statistical returns or surveys to the regulators or government agencies and stay informed on changes in accounting and tax regulations.
  • Tax Review: Work closely with the tax team to ensure local entity tax compliance and provide accounting support for tax audits/reviews.
  • Business support: Support new product and entity launches where accounting technical advice is required.
  • Budgeting: Support budgeting, forecasting, actual and variance analysis of the finance outsourcing partners.

Who You Are

Minimum Requirements

  • Experience: 8+ years of professional accounting experience, preferably with a Big 4 audit background.
  • Systems Proficiency: Excellent knowledge of accounting systems (e.g., Oracle or equivalent) and experience in AI automation.
  • Audit Knowledge: Experience handling large audits (central and local teams), statutory reporting, and tax compliance. Experience with Workiva FS preparation.
  • Accounting Expertise: Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and IFRS.
  • Project Management: Demonstrated success in managing cross-functional initiatives.
  • Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
  • Adaptability: Flexible with changing requirements in a fast-paced and growing environment, ability to multi-task and work collaboratively as well as independently.
  • Certification: Qualified accountant with accounting certification, such as  ACCA, CA or equivalent.
  • Degree in Accounting or Finance background
  • Problem Solver: Strong passion for solving complex challenges

Self starter: Self-motivated and proactive with a desire to succeed

Preferred Qualifications

  • Background: Knowledge of or experience in the payments, fin-tech, or financial services industries.
  • Tech Experience: Accounting experience in a fast-growing tech environment.
  • Technical Skills: Hubble/SQL experience beneficial.

In-office expectations

Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico, Bengaluru, India, and Dublin, Ireland work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.

Pay and benefits

The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is S$140,000 - S$210,000. This range may change if you are hired in another location. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings (“OTE”) range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and specific location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the primary location may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed above will vary depending on the applicant’s location and can be discussed in more detail during the interview process. Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends.

Office locations

Singapore

Team

Controllership

Job type

Full time

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At Stripe, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us.