Stripe’s mission is to increase the GDP of the internet. We build the
most powerful and flexible tools for running an internet business. We
handle billions of dollars each year and enable millions of users around
the world to scale faster and more efficiently by building their
businesses on Stripe.

To further this important mission, we are building our International
Accounting Stripe Delivery Center team and are looking for someone to
help us scale for the future in a fast paced environment.

You will:

• Perform month end accounting processes to support rapid global growth
  
• Work in three main pillars financial close and analysis, audit and
  regulatory compliance and reporting
  
• Perform monthly and quarterly close activities, including manual
  journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, variance analyses and
  analytical reviews, producing internal management reporting and
  external audit support
  
• Potential to perform month end activities and grow into other task and
  process to take on further responsibilities
  
• Be responsible for end to end preparation of journal entries and
  balance sheet reconciliations
  
• Prepare flux analysis and potential commentary and explanation on
  movements and trends
  
• Be responsible for performing transactional based work and
  streamlining processes
  
• Be a self starter and seek to standardize and centralize tasks 
  
• Own problems not just processes or projects - we want our specialists
  to own the full problem space and do what it takes to solve them
  
• Partner with multiple cross-functional stakeholders and subject matter
  experts to develop and improve controllership processes and to
  anticipate changing business requirements
  
• Scale our financial processes through automation and standardization
  

We’re looking for someone who has:

• An accountancy qualification (e.g ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with 3 -6 years of
  relevant accounting experience
  
• Degree in Accounting or Finance background
  
• Proven experience in the monthly close process, journal preparation
  and posting, audit, regulatory reporting and exposure to accounting
  systems.
  
• Experience in month end reporting and financial statement preparation
  
• Working knowledge of US GAAP 
  
• The ability to bring structure to ambiguous areas of opportunity and
  thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment
  
• Strong analytical skills and strong knowledge of Excel.
  
• An enthusiastic “roll up your sleeves” mentality
  
• A passion for creating new systems and solving problems via
  infrastructure and automation
  
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and with different
  cultures
  
• Demonstrated experience with internal controls
  
• Ability to be flexible and comfortable with changing requirements
  

Nice to haves:

• Knowledge of (or experience in) the technology or payments industry
  
• Oracle suite
  
• Hubble/SQL