Financial Data Analyst

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.

The Payments organization owns some of Stripes most critical payment flows and a platform that processes hundreds of billions of dollars in payments a year. Our team is responsible for translating complex partner specifications related to network costs (interchange and scheme fees) into simplified logic for internal and external consumption. This also drives decisions and product recommendations to manage the underlying network costs paid by Stripe and our users. The team partners closely with the engineering product finance and partnership groups to manage and understand Stripes network costs.

Our work is core to Stripes business as Technical Operations roles in Payments are a dynamic and key component of Stripes success. We sit at the intersection of product and platform engineers and financial partners connecting them to ensure that everyone thrives and nothing is lost in translation.

Were looking to add payment enthusiasts who enjoy interpreting complex cost structures and ever-changing payment network systems to optimize on behalf of Stripe and our users. Youll be instrumental in building Stripes approach to managing our global network cost base.

Collaborate across the company including engineering accounting financial partnerships and product teams to analyze billions of dollars moving through the Stripe platform

Translate network specifications into implementation instructions to create billing models for new and revised fees (both scheme and interchange)

Influence product strategy to minimize network costs

Collaborate with Product Engineering and Finance to implement cost-saving opportunities prioritize investment and explain cost and margin trends

Monitor and maintain the accuracy of the fees through validation and alerting

Create fee explainability to internal and external stakeholders and host education sessions for internal teams to scale knowledge

Introduce data and process efficiencies to meet the scale and speed of Stripe. Identify and automate inefficient operational processes to reduce manual workloads and scale our network cost operation by driving the design documentation and training of operational processes to leverage partner relationships

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.

Have 4 years of experience in Payments at a leading technology or payments company with the ability to write SQL to query relational databases

Have experience managing communications and workflows with technical and non-technical teams across internal and external stakeholders

Have experience navigating the nuanced complexity of financial systems and solving large-scale technical challenges

Have strong financial modeling and diagnostic skills to investigate prioritize and identify the root cause of issues

Have experience managing multiple concurrent work streams identifying and triaging technical issues and driving solutions with clear metrics to show impact

Experience working in fast-paced environments (e.g. high-growth fintech or tech company management consulting)

Experience mentoring junior team members in technical skill development operational strategy and problem solving

Experience working with PM Engineers finance team or accounting team

Experience handling tickets and adhering to operational targets and metrics Experience with visualization tools