Strategy and Analytics Business Partner

Role overview

Strategy and Analytics Business Partner at Stripe

Responsibilities

• You’ll partner directly with leaders within the SDC and be their go-to for all things data, insights, and strategy.
• You’ll partner with leadership to drive business strategy, planning, goal-setting and performance tracking.
• Develop metrics and large-scale dashboards to track the health of our user-facing and internal teams.
• Perform analyses (using SQL & other analytical tools/languages), identify trends, conduct research, build models, all to deliver objective, critical insights that can inform leadership of opportunities, risks, and strategic priorities.</li>

Preferred qualifications and skills

• Strong background in Accounting/Finance or prior AI experience is highly preferred, though these can also be developed on the job.</p>

Employment details

• Location: Bangalore

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.
• We ensure timely, reliable, high-quality data for not just Internal Systems and SDC, but for stakeholders across Stripe.</p>
• <li>Communicate with executives: Create narratives and documents that tell the story of your business area to influence senior Operations leadership and Stripe executive team decision making.

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>The Strategy & Analytics Internal Systems and SDC team aspires to supercharge the Internal Systems and SDC organization with analytics and insights.
• The Internal Systems and SDC org creates the engineering infrastructure and runs the internal operations that enables Stripe to succeed.
• We deliver data-driven insights that inform business decisions, drive measurable operational improvements, and guide strategy.
• We are not just data analysts, we are a mix of strategic business partners, deeply strategic and/or technical operational executors.
• <h2><strong>What you’ll do</strong></h2>
• <p>In this role, you’ll be the go-to expert for your business area.
• You’ll be hands-on and responsible for delivering critical insights, ensuring data driven decision making is at the core of what we do.
• You may also scope and lead mission critical projects and execute on strategic initiatives.</p>
• <h3><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h3>
• <ul>
• <li>Metrics & Insights: Wrangle large, highly complex datasets using SQL into actionable insights and become the data expert for your business area.
• Own executive-facing weekly, monthly or quarterly reporting. </li>
• <li>Stakeholder management: Influence and drive cross-functional change by partnering with stakeholders across a wide internal network of globally distributed teams, including Ops, Finance, Data Science, Product/Engineering, and more</li>
• <li>Drive operational excellence: Design, optimize and drive operational reviews and rhythm of the business.
• Guide the planning and goal-setting process for your business area, as well as progress checks throughout the year.
• Bring and consistently apply a ROI lens to all operational decisions, so we can make better-informed trade-offs</li>
• <li>Conduct internal knowledge sharing sessions to strengthen the team </li>
• </ul>
• <h2><strong>Who you are</strong></h2>
• <p>You’re passionate about solving business problems and making a direct impact on business.
• You thrive in environments with many moving parts and quickly pick up new domain knowledge and technologies (e.g. AI).
• We’re seeking someone with excellent communication and advanced SQL/analytics abilities.
• <h3><strong>Minimum requirements</strong></h3>
• <li>Bachelor's degree in STEM major (i.e. Computer Science, Math, Stat, Engineering, etc.) and 4+ years of prior working experience in data analysis fields</li>
• <li>Strong analytical ability, proficiency with SQL (minimum of 3 years advanced SQL) and strong understanding of data relationships</li>
• <li>Experience working with extremely large datasets</li>
• <li>Experience with AI tools (Claude Code, etc.) and have demonstrated measurable impact from AI in your role or in others’ around you. </li>
• <li>Outstanding communication, presentation skills & stakeholder management skills</li>
• <li>Experience working in or with Financial Services, Accounting, GTM/Sales, Operations</li>
• <li>Expertise working cross-functionally and with globally distributed teams to drive business and operational goals using data</li>
• <li>Ability to connect the big picture to minute details, toggling between them to set and operationalize strategy</li>
• <h3><strong>Preferred qualifications </strong></h3>
• <li>Experience working in fast-paced environments (e.g. high-growth fintech/tech company, management consulting)</li>
• <li>Experience working with Product Manager and Engineering teams</li>
• <li>Experience with visualization tools</li>