Requirements
- Experience
- 4–6 years
Joblaze summary
The Finance & Strategy Analyst at Stripe plays a crucial role in supporting the Go-to-Market and Partnerships teams by managing budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes. This position requires strong analytical skills and experience in building financial models, with a focus on improving efficiency and ROI for various investments. Ideal candidates have 4-6 years of experience in strategic finance or FP&A, and thrive in fast-paced environments while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Stripe's emphasis on innovation and growth offers a dynamic setting for those looking to make a significant impact.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Stripe's career page.
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Quick facts
- How much experience is required?
- 4–6 years of relevant experience for this Finance & Strategy Analyst role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Tableau, GSuite, Excel, Salesforce, Oracle, Anaplan.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Stripe targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Finance & Strategy Analyst role at Stripe.
From the original posting
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
The Finance & Strategy team is an integral thought partner to Stripe’s core functional leaders. We bring understanding and predictability to Stripe’s bottom line financials. We work cross functionally across many surfaces at Stripe and help steward Stripe’s resource investments to improve the durability of our long term financial performance.
What you’ll do
We're looking for a F&S Analyst to join our growing teams on the Go-to-Market (GTM) and Partnerships teams. This individual will help us with the forecasting budgeting and reporting for various departments accurately and in a timely manner and deliver improvements in our integrated financial systems with business partners, financial colleagues, and engineers.
Responsibilities
- Leverage your financial background to support and influence key strategic and business decisions
- Design and provide analytical rigor to measure efficiency and ROI of investments in headcount and non-headcount expenses
- Drive reporting, process and discipline for finance routines to shape and influence decision-making (e.g. budget, forecast, monthly reviews, long-range plans)
- Build and own models for in-depth analyses, as well as ensure their quality, timeliness, and accuracy
- Define metrics and leading indicators of business performance
- Partner with cross functional teams, such as Data Science, to develop reporting dashboards
- Drive continuous process improvement, standardization, simplification and reporting enhancements.
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
- 4-6 years of relevant experience in strategic finance or FP&A
- A keen analytical eye and experience building integrated models from scratch (in Excel, or other planning applications)
- Experience driving and executing on finance processes (e.g. budget, forecast reviews, negotiations)
- A proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with business partners
- A proven ability to be a self starter capable of driving business results without significant supervision
- The ability to maintain high performance under tight timelines and a “roll up your sleeves” mindset to get any job done
- The ability to bring structure to ambiguous areas of opportunity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment
- Excellent communication and organizational skills, both written and verbal.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and demonstrated ability to work independently, analyze problems and data sets to make complex investigation decisions
- Strong knowledge of GSuite tools, Salesforce and MS-Office products and experience working with/analyzing contracts and large data sets using SQL.
- Independently analyze and evaluate information from various data sources to determine a course of action for a matched case
- Demonstrated experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders
- Demonstrated history of taking on various types of challenging projects and producing results
- Solution-oriented mindset with enthusiasm for establishing best practices
- Self-disciplined, diligent, proactive and detail oriented
Preferred qualifications
- Experience working at a high-growth technology or financial services company
- Experience managing headcount and operating expenses
- Experience supporting Go-to-Market, Investment Banking, and/or Product Functions
- Oracle, Anaplan, Tableau or other equivalent application experience
- Experience with Python or a willingness to learn
- Experience in data visualization and dashboarding