Finance & Strategy Partner, Central Engineering

Who we are

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 Infrastructure Finance and Strategy team is an integral thought partner to Stripes engineering leadership. We bring understanding and predictability to Stripes R&D investments and operating expenses. We work cross-functionally across many surfaces at Stripe and help ensure the durability of our long-term financial performance.

What youll do

Were looking for a Finance and Strategy Partner to join our growing team. Youll help us with the forecasting budgeting and reporting for AI investments including token spend engineering headcount and management tools. Youll collaborate with data science engineering and finance teams to deliver improvements in our integrated financial systems and metrics and help drive our strategies for productivity improvement and cost efficiency.

Responsibilities

Leverage your financial background to support and influence key strategic and business decisions

Be your business teams financial partner for analysis and evaluation of strategic projects and initiatives (e.g. foundational investments or business model shifts)

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

Partner with cross-functional teams such as Finance Systems Data Science and Infrastructure Engineering 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

79 years of relevant experience in strategic finance or FP&A

Demonstrated experience driving and executing on finance processes (e.g. budget and forecast creation contract negotiations headcount envelope management)

Demonstrated experience using AI tools (coding agents skills forecasting tools) to develop data visualizations and explore datasets and developing expertise in new tools quickly

Fluency in AI cost drivers and metrics including token caching reads and writes model selection principles and billing frameworks

Deep understanding of expense accounting principles including accruals amortization and capitalization

Preferred qualifications

Experience working in corporate finance at a high-growth technology company

Experience managing headcount and operating expenses

Experience supporting engineering teams

Experience with Oracle Anaplan or similar financial management applications

Experience with Claude Code Codex Cursor or similar coding agents

Experience in data visualization and dashboarding

Background in investment banking private equity corporate development or consulting

Strong knowledge of G Suite tools and extracting analyzing and evaluating information from large data sets using SQL and large language models