Finance and Strategy Specialist

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 global Finance and Strategy team (F&S) are strategic business partners to Stripe’s leaders, providing clear insights which simplify the complexity of the business, and drive the key operating forums to enable effective decision-making.

F&S is expanding to support the needs of our growing business, and this role is an exciting opportunity to join a new Finance & Strategy team in Bangalore.  This team is chartered to deliver thoughtful analysis to inform key business decisions, through simplification and automation of key financial planning processes.  If you are an experienced Finance FP&A professional who wants to make an impact in a dynamic and growing organization, please read below.

What you’ll do

We're looking for a F&S Analyst to join our growing team. This individual will help us with the forecasting budgeting and reporting for various departments accurately and in a timely manner and deliver improvements in our integrated financial systems with business partners, finance colleagues, and engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Leverage your financial background to support and influence key strategic and business decisions
  • Design and provide analytical rigor to measure efficiency and ROI of investments in headcount and non-headcount expenses
  • Drive reporting, process and discipline for finance routines to shape and influence decision-making (e.g. budget, forecast, monthly reviews, long-range plans)
  • Build and own models for in-depth analyses, as well as ensure their quality, timeliness, and accuracy
  • Define metrics and leading indicators of business performance
  • Partner with Data Science teams to develop reporting dashboards
  • Drive continuous process improvement, standardization, simplification and reporting enhancements

 

Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

  • 4+ years of relevant experience in strategic finance or FP&A 
  • A keen analytical eye and experience building integrated models from scratch (in Excel or other planning applications)
  • Experience driving and executing on finance processes (e.g. budget, forecast reviews, negotiations, investment analysis)
  • A proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with business partners
  • A proven ability to be a self starter capable of driving business results without significant supervision
  • The ability to maintain high performance under tight timelines and a “roll up your sleeves” mindset to get any job done
  • The ability to bring structure to ambiguous areas of opportunity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Excellent communication and organizational skills, both written and verbal.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and demonstrated ability to work independently, analyze problems and data sets to make complex investigation decisions
  • Strong knowledge of gSuite tools, Salesforce and MS-Office products and experience working with/analyzing contracts and large data sets.
  • Independently analyze and evaluate information from various data sources to determine a course of action for a matched case
  • Demonstrated experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders
  • Demonstrated history of taking on various types of challenging projects and producing results
  • Solution-oriented mindset with enthusiasm for establishing best practices
  • Self-disciplined, diligent, proactive and detail oriented

You will also likely have (not required):

  • Experience working at a high-growth technology or financial services company
  • Oracle, Anaplan, Tableau or other equivalent application experience
  • Experience with SQL or a willingness to learn
  • Experience in data visualization and dashboarding

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 our Bucharest, Romania site have an 80% in-office expectation, and those in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico and Bengaluru, India 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

Stripe does not yet include pay ranges in job postings in every country. Stripe strongly values pay transparency and is working toward pay transparency globally.

Office locations

Bengaluru

Team

Finance & Strategy

Job type

Full time

We look forward to hearing from you

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.