Remote Finance and Strategy Analyst

Summary

Join Stripe's Finance & Strategy team as a F&S Analyst to help with forecasting, budgeting, and reporting for various departments. This individual will deliver improvements in integrated financial systems and support key strategic and business decisions.

Requirements

• 3-5 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

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working at a high-growth technology or financial services company
• Experience managing headcount and operating expenses
• Experience supporting Go-to-Market 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