Product Finance And Strategy

Summary

Join Stripe's growing team as a Financial and Strategic Analyst, partnering with product teams focused on Stripe's Terminal product. You will play a crucial role in forecasting, budgeting, and reporting for various departments, improving integrated financial systems, and supporting the hardware strategy. This involves managing hardware cash flows, reviewing accounting processes, and providing analytical leadership for operational initiatives. You will also own requirements gathering for reporting systems and build detailed analytical models. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in strategic finance, ideally within a high-growth technology company, and demonstrates strong analytical, communication, and collaborative skills.

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant experience within strategic finance, ideally at a high-growth technology company. Investment banking, management consulting and/or private equity experience will also be considered
• Experience working with hardware or physical goods & products
• Extensive experience building detailed financial analysis that is used to drive business decisions
• 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
• A proven ability to be a self-starter capable of driving business results without significant supervision
• The ability to bring structure to ambiguous areas of opportunity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with SQL or a willingness to learn is a must

Responsibilities

• Facilitate strategic and financial planning processes for the Terminal product group including business reviews, budgeting, forecasting, and opex planning. You will help drive alignment with Business leadership and improve processes to enable growth and scale
• Support our hardware strategy including demand forecast, inventory management and device roadmap
• Manage Hardware cash flows and review key accounting processes (e.g. inventory impairment, FIFO methodology, cost allocation) for both Stripe Terminal and subsidiary BBPOS
• Provide analytical rigor and bring strategic leadership to operational initiatives (e.g., you quantify the size of an opportunity that would require cross-functional partnership to address, and effectively collaborate with key stakeholders)
• Own requirements gathering to identify and drive reporting systems and tools needed to effectively scale with business growth
• Build and own detailed models for in-depth analyses, as well as ensure their quality, timeliness, and accuracy
• Drive continuous process improvement, standardization, simplification and reporting enhancements