Finance & Strategy Lead, Money as a Service (Seattle or remote)

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Who we are

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

The Finance & Strategy team is an integral thought partner to Stripe’s core functional leaders. We bring understanding and predictability to Stripe’s bottom line financials. We work cross functionally across many surfaces at Stripe and help steward Stripe’s resource investments to improve the durability of our long term financial performance.


What you’ll do

You’ll partner with the Connect product team, supporting the strategy for our platform and marketplace users. You’ll be a strategic partner and trusted advisor that helps the business to achieve their goals through rigorous financial analysis, forecasting, budgeting and reporting. You’ll work with cross-functional partners including finance, data science and engineering to make improvements to our financial systems and develop sustainable processes to help run the business.


Responsibilities

  • Influence key strategic decisions and investments through rigorous financial analysis (e.g. foundational investments or business model shifts).
  • Partner with senior product leaders to understand their top priorities and align your strategic objectives accordingly.
  • Drive reporting, process and discipline for finance routines to shape and influence decision-making (e.g. budget, forecast, business reviews, long-range plans).
  • Build and own models for in-depth analyses, ensuring their quality, timeliness, and accuracy.
  • Define metrics and leading indicators of business performance. Partner with cross-functional teams to develop reporting to monitor these metrics.
  • Identify and communicate actionable insights based on financial analysis and reporting tied to business drivers.
  • 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

  • 10+ years of relevant experience in strategic finance or FP&A
  • Exceptional analytical capabilities and business acumen, with the ability to simplify and distill complex information in a rigorous but consumable way
  • A proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with business partners; you are seen as a trusted and objective advisor
  • An enthusiastic “roll up your sleeves” mentality to go deep into business analysis and understand details while managing Exec-level communication
  • The ability to bring structure to ambiguous areas of opportunity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and demonstrated ability to work independently, analyze problems and data sets to make complex investigation decisions
  • A keen analytical eye and experience building integrated models from scratch (in Excel or other planning applications)
  • Independently extract, analyze and evaluate information from various data sources through proficiency in SQL
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred qualifications

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