Legal Entity Controller

Role overview

Legal Entity Controller at Stripe

Employment details

• Location: Bangalore

Application details

• <li>Resolve technical accounting questions and apply US GAAP, IFRS, and local GAAP judgment — escalate to central technical accounting teams when needed with well-formed recommendations</li>

About the employer

• <p><strong>About Stripe</strong></p>
• 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.

Additional role details

• <h2><strong>Legal Entity Controller (Bangalore)</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>
• <p>To further this important mission, we're building our Accounting team in Bangalore Finance and are looking for someone to help us scale for the future in a fast-paced environment.</p>
• <p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p>
• <ul>
• <li>End-to-end controllership for assigned legal entity(ies), including financial close, statutory reporting, audit readiness, regulatory filings, and adoption with the board or local management</li>
• <li>Preparation and sign-off of statutory financial statements and coordination of statutory adoption processes with local boards and directors and external advisors</li>
• <li>Manage external auditors and local service providers, setting scope, driving timelines, resolving findings, and maintaining high-quality documentation for audits, reviews, and regulatory inspections</li>
• <li>Oversee monthly, quarterly, and year-end close, leading complex journal entries, reconciliations, technical accounting assessments, variance analysis, and executive reporting packages</li>
• <li>Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of entity-level accounting policies and internal control frameworks, and own SOX and internal control compliance and remediation where applicable</li>
• <li>Serve as the primary business partner to Tax, Treasury, Legal, FP&A, and regional finance teams on transactions and policy changes that affect the entity's accounting, tax, and regulatory outcomes</li>
• <li>Identify, prioritize, and deliver process improvements and automation initiatives that materially increase accuracy, speed, or scalability of entity accounting (RPA, ERP configuration, reporting pipelines, templates, or tooling)</li>
• <li>Provide coaching and mentorship to more junior accounting teammates, and lead cross-functional projects and working groups to improve operating models</li>
• <li>Act as a subject-matter expert for entity-level reporting requests, internal and external audits, regulatory inquiries, and management escalations</li>
• </ul>
• <h3><strong>Qualifications</strong></h3>
• <li>Professional accountancy qualification (CA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) with 9+ years of progressive accounting experience, including significant controllership exposure</li>
• <li>Deep hands-on experience with monthly and year-end close, statutory financial statement preparation, external audits, regulatory filings, and variance analysis</li>
• <li>Strong working knowledge of US GAAP and IFRS, and experience applying local GAAP and converging treatments across frameworks</li>
• <li>Demonstrated experience owning internal control programs (SOX or similar) and executing control design and remediation</li>
• <li>Track record of delivering automation or process simplification at the entity level (ERP, reconciliation tooling, reporting pipeline improvements)</li>
• <li>Strong technical and problem-solving skills, advanced Excel ability, and experience with financial systems (e.g., Oracle, Workiva, Blackline, or similar).
• Familiarity with SQL and BI tools or scripting is a plus.</li>
• <li>Excellent stakeholder management — ability to partner with Tax, Treasury, Legal, FP&A, and regional teams to drive timely, risk-mitigated outcomes</li>
• <li>High integrity, sound professional judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to operate under tight deadlines</li>
• <li>Experience leading or mentoring junior finance professionals and managing external advisors or service providers</li>
• <h3><strong>Nice to Have</strong></h3>
• <li>Knowledge of (or experience in) the technology or payments industry</li>
• <li>Oracle suite</li>
• <li>Hubble and SQL</li>