Finance and Strategy Specialist

Role overview

Finance and Strategy Specialist at Stripe

<p>We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role.

Required qualifications

• <li>Intermediate (at a minimum) or advanced knowledge of SQL or Python is required - you must be well versed working with extremely large and complex datasets + extracting insights</li>

Employment details

• Location: Bengaluru

Application details

• If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply.

About the employer

• <h3><strong>About Stripe</strong></h3>
• 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.
• The Finance & Strategy team brings understanding and predictability to Stripe’s financials, and we work together with our key business partners to accelerate long term growth for Stripe.</p>
• <li>Gain deep knowledge and understanding of Stripe's business performance across geographies and user segments</li>

Additional role details

• <h2><strong>Who we are</strong></h2>
• <p>Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses.
• 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.</p>
• <h3><strong>About the team</strong></h3>
• <p>We are building an elite team to drive financial insight and strategy at Stripe.
• <h2><strong>What you’ll do</strong></h2>
• <h3><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h3>
• <ul>
• <li>Partner with F&S and Business Leaders to drive the long-term success of Stripe</li>
• <li>Work cross functionally to identify important strategy questions and answer them with data</li>
• <li>Build financial forecasts and targets, track performance, and understand deviations from actuals to drive strategy and operational rigor</li>
• <li>Define metrics and leading indicators of business performance and partner with the Analytics team to develop tools and dashboards to make these metrics widely accessible across Stripe</li>
• </ul>
• <p><strong>Who you are</strong></p>
• The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.</p>
• <h3><strong>Minimum requirements</strong></h3>
• <li>7–14 years of experience in a relevant analytical or finance role</li>
• <li>Experience with financial analysis, financial forecasting, BvA (variance analysis), and other financial concepts</li>
• <li>Experience working on ambiguous problems and driving solutions/projects independently</li>
• <li>Ability to automate and use AI to streamline recurring tasks/analyses, in order to free up time to work on more strategic and higher impact work</li>
• <li>Experience building dashboards and data visualization tools from scratch</li>
• <li>A proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with business partners and department leads.
• You are seen as a trusted and objective advisor</li>
• <li>An enthusiastic "roll up your sleeves" mentality</li>
• <li>A proven ability to be a self-starter capable of driving business results without significant supervision</li>
• <li>Experience working in a global capacity (this team will work will all regions)</li>
• <h3><strong>Preferred qualifications</strong></h3>
• <p><em>Experience in a strategic finance function at a high-growth tech company, preferably in the payments/fintech space</em></p>