Finance And Strategy Lead

Summary

Join Stripe's Finance & Strategy team as a strategic partner to the Connect product team. You will influence key strategic decisions through rigorous financial analysis, forecasting, and reporting. Partner with senior product leaders and cross-functional teams to achieve business goals. Build and own financial models, define key performance indicators, and communicate actionable insights. Drive process improvements and reporting enhancements. This role requires strong analytical skills, collaborative abilities, and experience in strategic finance or FP&A.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience in strategic finance or FP&A
• Exceptional analytical capabilities and business acumen, with the ability to simplify and distill complex information in a rigorous but consumable way
• A proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with business partners; you are seen as a trusted and objective advisor
• An enthusiastic “roll up your sleeves” mentality to go deep into business analysis and understand details while managing Exec-level communication
• The ability to bring structure to ambiguous areas of opportunity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment
• Excellent problem-solving skills and demonstrated ability to work independently, analyze problems and data sets to make complex investigation decisions
• A keen analytical eye and experience building integrated models from scratch (in Excel or other planning applications)
• Independently extract, analyze and evaluate information from various data sources through proficiency in SQL
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities

• Influence key strategic decisions and investments through rigorous financial analysis (e.g., foundational investments or business model shifts)
• Partner with senior product leaders to understand their top priorities and align your strategic objectives accordingly
• Drive reporting, process and discipline for finance routines to shape and influence decision-making (e.g., budget, forecast, business reviews, long-range plans)
• Build and own models for in-depth analyses, ensuring their quality, timeliness, and accuracy
• Define metrics and leading indicators of business performance. Partner with cross-functional teams to develop reporting to monitor these metrics
• Identify and communicate actionable insights based on financial analysis and reporting tied to business drivers
• Drive continuous process improvement, standardization, simplification and reporting enhancements

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working at a high-growth technology or financial services company
• Experience supporting a Product function
• Oracle, Anaplan, Tableau or other equivalent application experience
• Experience with Python or a willingness to learn
• Experience in data visualization and dashboarding