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 Stripe Product Accounting Team is responsible for supporting all products at Stripe, consulting on accounting implications and supporting teams' ability to make informed strategic decisions. We are responsible for the accurate and timely recording of all business-generated transactions on our balance sheet and income statement. We operate in a fast-paced environment and collaborate significantly with cross-functional and international teams. 

What you’ll do

Stripe is seeking an experienced  accounting data analyst to join its world class Accounting team and help us scale for the future, in a fast-paced environment that’s growing rapidly. A member of the Accounting Data Analyst team will support the processing and reporting of our global financial results. 

Responsibilities:

• Enable timely financial close and margin analysis through data analytics and visualization
• Wrangle large, highly complex datasets into actionable insights and become the data expert for gross margin accounting. Perform analysis, identify trends, conduct research, and build visualizations to deliver objective, critical insights that fulfill accounting and finance stakeholders’ needs 
• Implement anomaly detection of automated accounting activity to identify potential misstatements in financial results 
• Drive cross-functional projects, primarily partnering with FP&A, Financial Systems, and Product Engineers, to identify opportunities to help our stakeholders operate more efficiently and effectively
• Work independently to investigate the root cause of system breakages and drive both short and long-term resolution 
• Develop testing strategies and build population to satisfy analytic-based audit needs 

Who you are:

We’re looking for someone with a strong Accounting background as well as experience in data analysis, as described further below. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements:

• 5-7+ years of relevant public accounting and/or industry experience
• B.A. or B.S degree in Accounting or Finance (CPA preferred) OR CA qualified
• Fluency in U.S. GAAP
• Strong knowledge of Excel and experience working with large amounts of data, often coming from multiple sources
• Intermediate or advanced SQL proficiency 
• Demonstrated experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders
• Self-motivated individual with a demonstrated history of taking on various types of challenging projects and producing results, with excellent attention to detail
• Solution-oriented mindset with enthusiasm for establishing best practices, and challenging existing processes to identify improvement opportunities
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to convey financial concepts to both financial and non-financial audiences

Preferred qualifications:

• Knowledge of (or experience in) the technology or payments industry.
• Experience working in an automated accounting environment
• Experience with Tableau, Alteryx, or other visualization tools 

Stripe’s mission is to increase the GDP of the internet. We build the most powerful and flexible tools for running an internet business. We handle billions of dollars each year and enable millions of users around the world to scale faster and more efficiently by building their businesses on Stripe.

To further this important mission, we are building our International Accounting Stripe Delivery Center team and are looking for someone to help us scale for the future in a fast paced environment.

You Will

• Perform month end accounting processes to support rapid global growth
• Work in three main pillars financial close and analysis, audit and regulatory compliance and reporting
• Own the Statutory Financial Statement preparation, Audit, review and sign off and adoption of financial statements with the board of directors. 
• Work with Local service providers to ensure compliance and filing requirements are met timely and accurately. 
• Work with cross functional partners like Tax, Treasury, Accounting and other groups to ensure that financial results of the legal entities remain compliant with US Gaap and Local Gaaps. 
• Perform monthly and quarterly close activities, including manual journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, variance analyses and analytical reviews, producing internal management reporting and external audit support
• Potential to perform month end activities and grow into other task and process to take on further responsibilities
• Be responsible for end to end preparation of journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations
• Prepare flux analysis and potential commentary and explanation on movements and trends
• Be responsible for performing transactional based work and streamlining processes
• Be a self starter and seek to standardize and centralize tasks 
• Own problems not just processes or projects - we want our specialists to own the full problem space and do what it takes to solve them
• Partner with multiple cross-functional stakeholders and subject matter experts to develop and improve controllership processes and to anticipate changing business requirements
• Scale our financial processes through automation and standardization 

We Are Looking For Someone Who Has

• An accountancy qualification (e.g CA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with 8+ years of relevant accounting experience
• Degree in Accounting or Finance background
• Proven experience in the monthly close process, journal preparation and posting, audit, and exposure to accounting systems.
• Experience in month end reporting and analytics
• Working knowledge of US GAAP 
• The ability to bring structure to ambiguous areas of opportunity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment
• Strong analytical skills and strong knowledge of Excel.
• Knowledge of data modeling or experience in any analytics tool will be an added advantage.
• An enthusiastic “roll up your sleeves” mentality
• A passion for creating new systems and solving problems via infrastructure and automation
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and with different cultures
• Demonstrated experience with internal controls
• Ability to be flexible and comfortable with changing requirements

Nice to haves

• Knowledge of (or experience in) the technology or payments industry
• Oracle suite
• Hubble/SQL

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

As Stripe’s user base and global footprint grows dramatically, we have distinctly unique support problems resulting from both our type of scale and the type of businesses we partner with. The Bangalore Finance (SDC) strategy will provide operational leverage and expand Stripe’s portfolio of operational capabilities to support the scaled needs for external users and internal Stripe teams.

What you’ll do

Joining the Finance team, will put you amongst some of the most talented finance and operations leaders in the globe.  We are looking for a proven leader to build and lead the fast-growing International Accounting team within our Bangalore Finance. The International Accounting Manager for the Controllership function will supervise and evaluate a number of Legal entity controllership processes and have experience implementing new systems and tools. This position will suit a person who is a hands-on manager and excited to assist in managing the monthly close, statistical reporting, compliances, coordinating with board to adopt and approve financial statements, indirect tax filings, cash flow forecasting, intercompany accounting, statutory reporting, consolidation, and audits of all our international subsidiaries and branches. Based in the Bangalore office, you will be on the ground floor of this function with an opportunity to set the pace and direction for the future.  

Responsibilities

• Build, develop and lead a team that drives International Accounting Controllership function based out of Bangalore Finance. 
• Perform and drive monthly / quarterly close activities, including manual journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, variance analyses and analytical reviews, producing internal management reporting and external audit support
• Identify potential inefficiencies in existing processes and propose improvements
• Participate in building scalable accounting processes, establish measures of success, set benchmarks and improve timelines and efficiencies to support global growth
• Partner with Billing, Internal Systems, Treasury, Tax and/or Legal to investigate issues that arise during reporting cycles
• Define and execute efficient internal control documentation and sign-off procedures including the country prescribed regulatory frameworks (ICFR, SOX, GFS etc)
• Enhance and maintain existing accounting policy and procedural documentation
• Drive end to end improvement of input processes to enable scale and productivity 
• Develop, manage and improve process metrics utilizing automation, lean practices and process optimization to scale
• Create global best practice documentation and facilitate sharing across the globe.
• Create a culture consistent with Stripe Operating and Leadership principles and an inspiring work environment that brings the best out of people at work.
• Provide robust feedback on process health and performance, identifying and remediating errors and delivering scale over time
• Partner with global process owners and functional leaders to demonstrate impeccable performance across multiple workflows and set a high bar for consistent improvement over time
• Lead cross functional projects and reporting that drive performance improvement, visibility and automation throughout financial services.  

We are looking for:

• Demonstrated knowledge of key business financial metrics, providing metrics inputs to various reporting venues, and communicating key performance indicators to stakeholders in support of business objectives
• Advanced finance operations experience of leading large operational processes
• Ability to set goals, financial plans and effectively influence leaders across Stripe

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

• Big 4 exposure to audit, accounting and risk reviews.
• 12 - 15 + years of relevant public accounting and/or industry experience
• Led Accounting teams in multi-location and exposure to working in multicultural, location and dynamic business environment 
• B.Com & M.Com in Accounting or Finance (Chartered Accountant / CPA strongly preferred)
• Strong understanding and hands on experience working in U.S. GAAP 
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, both written and verbal
• Strong knowledge of Excel and experience working with large data sets
• Demonstrated experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business or STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math); MBA preferred

Preferred qualifications 

• Experience in building and scaling new teams from zero 
• Strong operational background including new process launch, service delivery in a high growth technology company
• Experience with written and verbal communications for both technical and non-technical audiences at the senior leadership level
• Proficient in obtaining, organizing, and analyzing data to challenge conventional wisdom, make fact-based decisions, and drive root cause analysis, and evaluate outcomes

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 Stripe Product Accounting Team is responsible for supporting all products at Stripe, consulting on accounting implications and supporting teams' ability to make informed strategic decisions. We are responsible for the accurate and timely recording of all business-generated transactions on our balance sheet and income statement. We operate in a fast-paced environment and collaborate significantly with cross-functional and international teams. 

What you’ll do

Stripe is seeking an experienced accountant to join its world class accounting team and help us scale for the future, in a fast-paced environment that is growing rapidly. In this role you will support our Payments and Payment Products revenue accounting, leveraging your technical expertise with US GAAP, specifically ASC 606, to quickly identify accounting implications and impacts to customers while advising and collaborating with team members cross-functionally to develop operational processes that help us scale.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable accounting processes to support global growth in payment processing accounting
• Partner closely with our product, go-to-market, and finance partners to thoroughly understand new products, features, and contracts.
• Partner with internal systems and engineering teams to support internal financial systems and automation of accounting processes
• Assess the effectiveness of internal controls, and design new processes and controls for emerging and growing business activities
• Develop and maintain up-to-date accounting procedural documentation
• Plan and perform monthly and quarterly close activities, including journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, variance analyses, financial reporting deliverables, and analytical reviews
• Produce internal management analyses and reporting
• Support external audit processes

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

• An accountancy qualification (e.g CA, CPA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with 2 - 3 years of relevant accounting experience
• Degree in Accounting or Finance background
• Proven experience in the monthly close process, journal preparation and posting, audit, regulatory reporting and exposure to accounting systems.
• Experience in month end reporting and financial statement preparation
• Working knowledge of US GAAP - ASC 606 
• The ability to bring structure to ambiguous areas of opportunity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment
• Strong analytical skills and strong knowledge of Excel
• An enthusiastic “roll up your sleeves” mentality
• A passion for creating new systems and solving problems via infrastructure and automation
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and with different cultures
• Demonstrated experience with internal controls
• Ability to be flexible and comfortable with changing requirements

Preferred qualifications

• CPA/ CA or similar qualification
• Knowledge of (or experience in) the technology or payments industry.
• Experience working with Oracle Suite
• Experience with Hubble and SQL
• Experience with Analytical Tools like- Power BI, Tableau, KNIME, Python, Alteryx