Accounting Analyst
Who we are
About Stripe
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
Corporate Accounting works across teams to distill the scale and complexity of Stripe’s operations into clear and insightful financial reporting. Quick and accurate close and reporting processes are foundational to our understanding of business performance. You will play an integral role in shaping the evolution of our close processes and systems in accounting areas such as operating expenses, prepaids, accruals, fixed assets, leases, debt, investments, equity, stock-based compensation, and close management. You will also advise on the accounting implications of new initiatives and transactions.
What you’ll do
Responsibilities
Perform month end accounting processes to support rapid global growth
Work in three main pillars financial close and analysis, audit and regulatory compliance and reporting
Own the Statutory Financial Statement preparation, Audit, review and sign off and adoption of financial statements with the board of directors.
Work with Local service providers to ensure compliance and filing requirements are met timely and accurately.
Work with cross functional partners like Tax, Treasury, Accounting and other groups to ensure that financial results of the legal entities remain compliant with US Gaap and Local Gaaps.
Perform monthly and quarterly close activities, including manual journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, variance analyses and analytical reviews, producing internal management reporting and external audit support
Potential to perform month end activities and grow into other task and process to take on further responsibilities
Be responsible for end to end preparation of journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations
Prepare flux analysis and potential commentary and explanation on movements and trends
Be responsible for performing transactional based work and streamlining processes
Be a self starter and seek to standardize and centralize tasks
Own problems not just processes or projects - we want our specialists to own the full problem space and do what it takes to solve them
Partner with multiple cross-functional stakeholders and subject matter experts to develop and improve controllership processes and to anticipate changing business requirements
Scale our financial processes through automation and standardization
Who you are
We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
An accountancy qualification (e.g CA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with 3 -6 years of relevant accounting experience
Degree in Accounting or Finance background
Proven experience in the monthly close process, journal preparation and posting, audit, and exposure to accounting systems.
Experience in month end reporting and analytics
Working knowledge of US GAAP
The ability to bring structure to ambiguous areas of opportunity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment
Strong analytical skills and strong knowledge of Excel.
Knowledge of data modeling or experience in any analytics tool will be an added advantage.
An enthusiastic “roll up your sleeves” mentality
A passion for creating new systems and solving problems via infrastructure and automation
Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and with different cultures
Demonstrated experience with internal controls
Ability to be flexible and comfortable with changing requirements
Preferred qualifications
Knowledge of (or experience in) the technology or payments industry
Oracle suite
Hubble/SQL
In-office expectations
Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in our Bucharest, Romania site have an 80% in-office expectation, and those in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico and Bengaluru, India work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.
Pay and benefits
Stripe does not yet include pay ranges in job postings in every country. Stripe strongly values pay transparency and is working toward pay transparency globally.
