About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companiesfrom the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startupsuse 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 everyones reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the team
The Finance & Strategy team is an integral thought partner to Stripes core functional leaders. We bring understanding and predictability to Stripes bottom line financials. We work cross functionally across many surfaces at Stripe and help steward Stripes resource investments to improve the durability of our long term financial performance.
What youll do
Were looking for a F&S Specialist 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 financial 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 nonheadcount expenses
- Drive reporting process and discipline for finance routines to shape and influence decisionmaking (e.g. budget forecast monthly reviews longrange plans)
- Build and own models for indepth 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
Were 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
- 7 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)
- 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 fastmoving environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent communication and organizational skills both written and verbal.
- Excellent problemsolving skills and demonstrated ability to work independently analyze problems and data sets to make complex investigation decisions
- Strong knowledge of gSuite tools Salesforce and MSOffice 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 crossfunctional stakeholders
- Demonstrated history of taking on various types of challenging projects and producing results
- Solutionoriented mindset with enthusiasm for establishing best practices
- Selfdisciplined diligent proactive and detail oriented
You will also likely have (not required):
- Experience working at a highgrowth 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
Required Experience:
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