Finance & Strategy Analyst

Stripe•Seattle, WA

About The Position

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. We're looking for a F&S Analyst to join our growing teams on the Go-to-Market (GTM) and Partnerships teams. 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.

Requirements

4-6 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, fast-moving environment
Excellent communication and organizational skills, both written and verbal.
Excellent problem-solving skills and demonstrated ability to work independently, analyze problems and data sets to make complex investigation decisions
Strong knowledge of GSuite tools, Salesforce and MS-Office products and experience working with/analyzing contracts and large data sets using SQL.
Independently analyze and evaluate information from various data sources to determine a course of action for a matched case
Demonstrated experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders
Demonstrated history of taking on various types of challenging projects and producing results
Solution-oriented mindset with enthusiasm for establishing best practices
Self-disciplined, diligent, proactive and detail oriented

Nice To Haves

Experience working at a high-growth technology or financial services company
Experience managing headcount and operating expenses
Experience supporting Go-to-Market, Investment Banking, and/or Product Functions
Oracle, Anaplan, Tableau or other equivalent application experience
Experience with Python or a willingness to learn
Experience in data visualization and dashboarding

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 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
Define metrics and leading indicators of business performance
Partner with cross functional teams, such as Data Science, to develop reporting dashboards
Drive continuous process improvement, standardization, simplification and reporting enhancements.

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