Revenue and Go-to-Market Accounting Lead

Stripe • San Francisco, NY

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About The Position

Stripe is seeking an experienced accountant to support global revenue accounting across Payments products. The role applies U.S. GAAP expertise, particularly ASC 606, to identify accounting implications and customer impacts, and works with cross-functional partners to develop scalable operational processes. The position is part of Stripe’s Product Accounting Team, which supports Stripe products, advises on accounting implications, and helps teams make informed strategic decisions. The team records business-generated transactions on the balance sheet and income statement and collaborates with cross-functional and international teams.

The role partners with product, go-to-market, finance, systems, and engineering teams to support new products and features, financial systems, and accounting automation. It develops accounting requirements, policies, procedures, and controls; performs monthly and quarterly close work; prepares internal analyses and reporting; and supports external audits.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant public accounting and/or industry accounting experience.
• B.A. or B.S. degree in Accounting or Finance.
• Fluency in U.S. GAAP and ability to research complex accounting issues, with a focus on ASC 606.
• Experience with internal-control design, implementation, and execution.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and organizational skills, including ability to explain financial concepts to financial and non-financial audiences.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of Excel and experience working with large data sets from multiple sources.
• Track record of using artificial intelligence (AI) to improve quality and efficiency.
• History of taking on challenging projects and producing results with excellent attention to detail.
• Solution-oriented mindset and enthusiasm for establishing best practices and challenging existing processes to identify improvement opportunities.

Nice To Haves

• Chartered accountant (CA), certified public accountant (CPA), or similar qualification.
• Knowledge of or experience in the technology, payments, and/or AI industries.
• SQL experience.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable accounting processes to support global growth in payment processing accounting.
• Partner with internal systems and engineering teams on financial systems and accounting-process automation.
• Work with the GTM Revenue Intake accounting team and product, go-to-market, and finance partners to understand products, features, and contracts and advise on operational accounting implications.
• Apply ASC 606 to develop requirements and standard operating procedures supporting accounting policies, and maintain current procedural documentation.
• Assess internal-control effectiveness and design processes and controls for emerging and growing business activities.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior